The Arch Street fire department and the Office of Emergency Management are currently working on containing a fire in Saline County, according to Sgt. Theodore Haase with the Pulaski County sheriff's office.

The Rapides Parish sheriff says two inmates have been accused of burning a hole in a window so they could lower a string to an accomplice on the street and reel up drugs to prisoners and in the process started a fire.

Violent storms swept through the eastern part of the United States Friday night, killing a northern Virginia woman when a tree fell onto her home, damaging subway cars in Washington, D.C., and knocking out power to more than 2 million people in the middle of a heat wave.

The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute a crime and he won’t be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.

Should they win control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in November, Republicans say they would consider using a fast-track budget process to repeal parts of President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare overhaul.

Firefighters searching for bodies in the nearly 350 homes burned by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history found a second body Friday at a residence where another person was discovered dead earlier.

Republicans in at least four states want to abandon an expansion of Medicaid in President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, and more than a dozen other states are considering it in the wake of the Supreme Court decision removing the threat of federal penalties.

The Senate on Friday confirmed Allison Macfarlane to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as it grapples with aging reactors, long-term atomic waste disposal and a response to last year’s disaster in Japan.

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the release of tapes to the Los Angeles Police Department that investigators believe could shed new light on unsolved murders connected to Charles Manson and his followers.

George Zimmerman’s lawyer sparred with prosecutors over the former neighborhood-watch volunteer’s finances Friday in a lengthy hearing that concluded with a judge saying he would need more time to decide whether to grant him bail again.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to consider an appeal by the Federal Communications Commission of an appeals court ruling that overturned the agency’s fine against CBS for its broadcasting a fleeting image of singer Janet Jackson’s breast during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.

Arkansan Merry Dye has some simple advice for people who like to text while driving: “Turn your phone off and put it away.” Now the federal government is poised to spend more than $100 million to help Dye spread her message. On Friday, as part of a broad highway spending bill, the House and Senate passed “Mariah’s Act,” legislation named for Dye’s daughter Mariah West, an 18-year old from Rogers who died in a car crash while she was texting with friends.

China’s first female astronaut and two other crew members emerged smiling from a capsule that returned safely to Earth on Friday from a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future space station.

In front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters, Egypt’s first Islamist and civilian president-elect vowed Friday to fight for his authority and symbolically read an oath of office on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on the eve of his official inauguration.

The U.S. ambassador to Kenya, once a confidant of President Barack Obama, abruptly announced Friday — days before the release of an internal audit — that he was resigning, citing “differences with Washington.” His departure will leave the top embassy post vacant at a time when Kenya is increasingly being drawn into a battle with militant Islam.

Suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gate of a government compound in eastern Afghanistan before dawn Friday, opening the way for armed insurgents to storm the facility and touching off an hours-long gun battle that left 10 people dead, officials said.

Syria’s opposition Friday reported the deadliest 24-hour period so far in the uprising against President Bashar Assad and said rebel fighters had seized two Syrian generals, one of them the highest-ranking officer to fall into insurgent hands.

The Palestinians on Friday persuaded the U.N. cultural agency to list the Church of the Nativity — the place where Christians believe Jesus was born — as an endangered World Heritage site despite misgivings by churches in charge of the basilica.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Differences with Washington regarding my leadership style and certain priorities lead me to believe that it’s now time to leave.” Scott Gration on resigning as the U.S. ambassador to Kenya Article, this page

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Everything you put water on, it was just swallowing it.” Rich Rexach, a firefighter battling a blaze that destroyed nearly 350 homes near Colorado Springs, Colo., making it the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history Article, 1A

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing, bringing an end to one of Hollywood’s most unexpected marriages. After five years of marriage, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise on Thursday, said Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields.

Arkansas schools and school districts are now excused from complying with the key provision of the federal No Child Left Behind Act that requires 100 percent of public school students to score at grade level on state math and literacy exams by 2013-14.

With lawmakers set to leave the Capitol for Congress’ July Fourth recess, Sen. Mark Pryor threatened to derail a combination of bills to force removal of a provision that would have required tens of thousands of Arkansans to buy federal flood insurance.

Dear Mahatma: I wonder if Little Rock has a priority list of needed road improvements. Specifically, when will Kanis Road be straightened and widened? If improved, Kanis could be a major artery and an alternate to Chenal Parkway. — Margaret

A piece of Little Rock history toppled to the ground Friday as the red jaws of a demolition excavator splintered the bleachers at Ray Winder Field, the home of the Arkansas Travelers’ Class AA baseball team for more than 70 years.

The Little Rock Fire Department will have fire marshals patrolling the streets this weekend and leading up to the Fourth of July in search of people using fireworks in the city limits during the countywide burn ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul this week also delivered a big decision for Gov. Mike Beebe: whether to allow Arkansas to participate in an expansion of Medicaid. Beebe is expected to address the issue at a Monday news conference, said Matt DeCample, the governor’s spokesman.

After a night of drinking and setting off fireworks inside his home, an England man led authorities across county lines in a high-speed pursuit early Thursday morning before he was arrested, deputies said.

The Hot Springs Village Property Owners’ Association has banned all outdoor water use until further notice because the community’s distribution system is in “critical condition.” A large water-main break discovered early Friday contributed to the problem, General Manager Scott Randall said.

The Bryant City Council has postponed voting on an ordinance that would allow voters to decide whether they want to establish a tax on alcohol sold in the city’s restaurants and private clubs with alcohol permits.

The Arkansas Municipal League elected Camden Mayor Chris Claybaker as president and Pea Ridge Mayor Jackie Crabtree as first vice president in its new slate of officers for 2012-13, a news release said.

Summer classes that normally would have been held in the University of Central Arkansas’ A.E. Burdick Hall will be moved to other buildings on campus so the school can install ceiling fans in classrooms.

Paper carrier held in break-in tries Police said an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette deliveryman was arrested after he was caught on an apartment complex security camera trying to break into cars while on his route.

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100 YEARS AGO June 30, 1912 FORT SMITH — After a preliminary hearing Everett Halstead, a well-known local loan man, who was arrested on complaint of C.T. Mitchell, an attorney of Stigler, Okla., who charged Halstead had stolen a diamond ring from him while Mitchell was negotiating a $1,000 loan, was dismissed by Justice Fisher.

The National Association of Evangelicals, a wide-reaching organization that includes more than 45,000 churches of various denominations, has drafted a code of ethics for ministers. Early signees include big-name pastors in the evangelical world, including Rick Warren and Max Lucado.

A charity founded by Russian Jewish billionaires is establishing a $1 million annual award for excellence in virtually any field, to honor those people who attribute their success to Jewish values. The prize will be administered in partnership with the Israeli government, highlighting the strong ties between Israel and Russia.

$23.5 million buys megachurch’s arena NEW YORK — The Madison Square Garden Co. says it bought the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., for $23.5 million from a Los Angeles-area megachurch. The company says it will invest $50 million in the arena and restore it to a first-class musical venue.

MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT First Baptist Church, 6501 S. Hazel St., Pine Bluff, will present the Pine Bluff Coterie and Community Band during a patriotic music event, I Love This Land, at 7:30 p.m. Monday. (870) 543-0198.

The Supreme Court’s dramatic decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act gives President Barack Obama a major political victory. But the controversial measure now becomes a major election issue and its future will remain in doubt at least until voters render their verdict this November.

The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to let the core elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act stand kicks the fate of the Barack Obama administration’s signature initiative where it properly belongs—into the domain of politics—where a Mitt Romney administration would still have ample opportunity to dismantle the main elements of the law.

With the births of my second granddaughter and first grandson, I realize more than ever how fleeting is the period of awareness that allows us to expand the essence of who we are. With that in mind, I offer some sincere notes to Keirston, Elizabeth and Trenton from their grandfather, who continually falls short of his own well intentioned messages.

Revise food-stamp policy Not only does the food-stamp program need to go on a diet, I would suggest that our federal government implement a 21st Century version of the commodities distribution program that existed during the 1970s.

A basketball practice facility, student-athlete academic and career development center and indoor training facility for baseball and track with a combined estimated cost of $45.8 million to $57.6 million is a step closer to becoming reality at Arkansas.

Arkansas has sold more than 50,000 season tickets for its six 2012 football games at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, with more than 45,000 of those renewals coming after Bobby Petrino’s firing as head coach April 10.

A day after Rafael Nadal’s stunning exit at Wimbledon, the only other men who have won the tournament since 2003 — six-time champion Roger Federer and defending champion Novak Djokovic — found themselves trailing less-accomplished opponents, too.

Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock has been tough on power hitters since it opened in 2007. This year, 40 home runs have been hit by the Arkansas Travelers and their opponents here, the lowest total in the Texas League.

Some of the biggest names in American sprinting were on the sideline and not in the starting blocks for the opening round of the 200 meters as Wallace Spearmon Jr. turned in the best time Friday at the Olympic trials.

Pole-sitter Austin Dillon led most of the final 113 laps to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kentucky Speedway on Friday night. It was the first Nationwide victory for Dillon, a rookie who captured the truck series title a year ago.

FOOTBALL Georgia dismisses RB Georgia tailback Isaiah Crowell was dismissed from the team Friday by Coach Mark Richt after the sophomore was arrested on felony weapons charges. Police found a gun in Crowell’s vehicle early Friday morning.

The chief executive of Barclays said the bank submitted false data on borrowing costs during the credit crisis in 2007 and 2008 to protect its reputation from suspicions that it was in trouble, a decision he said was wrong.

James Bullard, president of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve, said Friday he is worried about the Fed’s policy of almost zero-percent interest rates, which has been in place for more than three years.

First Federal Bancshares, the Harrison-based bank that was in financial distress early last year, had the best performing stock among Arkansas public companies in the second quarter, climbing almost 19 percent.

Peter Madoff pleaded guilty Friday to a conspiracy charge in Manhattan federal court three years to the day after his brother, Bernard, was sentenced to 150 years in prison for directing the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “If you have a policy that is going on five, six, seven, eight years to 10 years, now it is not business cycles anymore.” James Bullard, president of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve Article, 1D

Q Many of my roses, Knock-Outs and a few other types, have been diagnosed with rose rosette disease. I first noticed that many of my 40 Knock-Out roses in the front yard looked kind of odd — there are strange branches shooting out that are very pink-stemmed that are tipped with a tight knot of rose blooms that also didn’t look quite right.

DEAR TOM AND RAY: I need your help to settle an argument I have with my no-good brother-in-law from Illinois. At night he always drives with his fog lights on in addition to his headlights. He says he can see better with them on.

Eucoclean 3-in-1 Stories of bed bugs infesting people’s homes and hotel rooms still run rampant, and the squeamish and suggestible among us are thrown into nightmares of crawling clothes and pest-filled mattresses — real or imagined.

Happy birthday. Led by your heart, love changes you this year. Relationships have a strong influence on where you’ll live and work. Activities that center on communication, writing, mechanical skills and design bring success over the next 10 weeks.

DEAR READERS: Here are a few “favorite hints” learned from older family members. Read on, and you might learn something new: DEAR HELOISE: My grandfather-in-law lived to be 105 years of age. When he was 90, I asked him what he attributed his longevity to.

DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I’m studying at a university in your country, and I would like to find out about your religion. I come from a country with very few Christians, and I don’t know anything about Jesus. How can I find out? — I.Z.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says his office won’t review a contract between the state’s lottery commission and a ticket vendor or whether the games’ former director acted properly when he amended the agreement on his own.

Congress has passed a massive measure that will salvage some 2.8 million jobs and shield college students from sharply higher interest rates on college loans. The bill would also shore up the federal flood insurance program.

Syrian opposition groups that track casualties reported Friday that the previous day was the deadliest so far this year, and possibly in the entire Syrian uprising, with as many as 190 civilians killed in a 24-hour period.

The University of Central Arkansas announced on Friday morning that no toxic chemicals were found in Burdick Hall despite two evacuations of the building and two investigations into why several students and teachers mysteriously fell ill while in the building.

A judge says prosecutors can still seek the death penalty against a Trumann man accused of killing a police officer — even though the state Supreme Court recently ruled Arkansas' execution law was unconstitutional.

Arkansas is one of five states that have been granted relief from key requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total to 24 states given waivers, an Obama administration official said Friday.

The University of Arkansas athletic department is moving forward with planning for three major construction projects: a basketball practice facility, a student-athlete success center and a baseball and track indoor training facility.

As President Barack Obama surveys damage from raging wildfires and thanks first responders in Colorado, he also will be seeking to show voters in one of the nation's most tightly contested political swing states that he is a compassionate leader who can command in a crisis.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, preserving a law that would expand insurance to millions of people and transform an industry that makes up 18 percent of the nation’s economy.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday became the first sitting Cabinet member held in contempt of Congress, a rebuke pushed by Republicans seeking to unearth the facts behind a bungled gun tracking operation and dismissed by most Democrats as a political stunt.

Colorado Springs officials said Thursday that hundreds of homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire that has encroached on the state’s second-largest city and threatened the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Mexican authorities have identified two federal police officers accused of shooting dead three of their colleagues at Mexico City’s international airport this week and say the gunmen were part of a trafficking ring that flew in cocaine from Peru.

People can’t be prosecuted for lying about receiving military medals, the U.S. Supreme Court said, invoking free speech rights to strike down a federal law intended to protect the integrity of armed services awards.

The Obama administration on Thursday cleared China and Singapore from possible U.S. economic penalties, citing their sharp cuts in imports of Iranian oil, as an American deadline arrived for banks to stop processing petroleum transactions with Tehran.

The Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide Thursday but will allow his trial to go forward on 10 other war-crimes counts related to atrocities in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other weapons along its border with Syria on Thursday, a military buildup that came as world powers showed new urgency to resolve the crisis before it ignites the region.

In his 2010 campaign, Lt. Gov. Mark Darr pledged to challenge the constitutionality of the federal health-care law, and he said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the law’s constitutionality is not a loss but “a wake-up call.”

Each of Arkansas’ four House members voted Thursday to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, escalating a rift between the Republican-held House and the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama.

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold all but one provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act means that for now, at least, one of the most far-reaching overhauls of the nation’s health-care system will be the law of the land. New rules for insurers that have taken effect will remain in place, while new opportunities to gain health-care coverage will begin in 2014.

Democrats lauded and Republicans panned Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s 2-year-old decision not to sue over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the act is constitutional.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not known for delivering laugh lines. But she drew chuckles from a group of liberal lawyers not long ago while recalling how Justice Elena Kagan, 52, had suggested during an oral argument before the Supreme Court that people born before 1948 were old.

The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act prompted swift responses from the two presidential candidates, moving the debate squarely into the political sphere and setting it up to figure prominently for the remainder of the campaign.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Dr. Karadzic and myself both thought it was a courageous decision of the trial chamber to say at this stage of the case that there was no genocide in the municipalities in Bosnia in 1992.” Peter Robinson, the attorney of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who was acquitted Thursday of one charge of genocide but still faces 10 other war-crimes counts Article, this page

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Our constitutional tradition stands against the idea that we need Oceania’s Ministry of Truth.” Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a ruling in which the court struck down the Stolen Valor Act, comparing the law against lying about receiving military medals to George Orwell’s novel 1984 Article, this page

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — largely upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday — will extend coverage to more than a half a million uninsured Arkansans when it is fully implemented in 2014, state health officials said Thursday.

With nearly a third of Arkansas now experiencing “extreme” drought, some small water utilities in the state have been sounding the alarm, urging their customers to stop washing their cars and watering their lawns and gardens.

The five ducks that waddle in a twice-daily march through the Peabody Hotel’s lobby will continue their ritual promenade and swim for a few more weeks while final negotiations to sell the Statehouse Convention Center’s anchor hotel wrap up.

Little Rock Chief of Police Stuart Thomas promoted two captains to the rank of assistant chief Thursday, one more than was advertised, in a move he said is necessary to manage the 80 new officers he plans to hire within a year.

State Medicaid officials and two of the state’s largest private insurers said Thursday that revamping how payments are made to providers will lower costs, improve health-care quality and possibly attract business to the state.

For a homeless child, it’s not uncommon to attend three or more schools in a single year. As a result, it’s not uncommon for those children to face serious academic problems, making them more likely to be homeless adults.

A preliminary design for the extreme makeover of the North Little Rock High School-West Campus calls for a reoriented football stadium and four four-story classroom wings — one for each grade level nine through 12.

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100 YEARS AGO June 29, 1912 Prof. J.L. Bond, supervisor of rural schools, has sent out a bulletin to the teachers of rural schools, making suggestions regarding the preparations for the opening of the school sessions.

THE ONE THING we can all be sure of about decisions out of the Supreme Court of the United States is that we can’t be sure about them. Wasn’t the swing vote on the court supposed to be that of Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy?

It’s the judiciary’s Nixon-to-China : Chief Justice John Roberts joins the liberal wing of the Supreme Court and upholds the constitutionality of Obamacare. How? By pulling off one of the great constitutional finesses of all time.

Last Friday, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that our state’s lethal-injection statute is unconstitutional. Arkansas still has a death penalty, but with no legal means of carrying it out, all executions are on hold until the Legislature passes a new law.

There was always a compromise to be had—a way out of striking down the individual mandate without giving Congress the power to force people to buy health insurance (or broccoli). A few sharp-eyed commentators pushed it. One was Joey Fishkin on Balkinization.

Tactics all about votes Barack Obama did an end run around Congress and basically gave a two-year amnesty to illegal aliens. From 2008-2010, the Democrats controlled Congress and had 60 votes in the Senate. They could have given all 12 million illegal aliens amnesty and American citizenship immediately and the Republicans could have done nothing to stop it.

In Stephen L. Clark’s letter published June 20th, he wrote: “Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, has thrown down the gauntlet to Arkansas pastors, promising to ‘hold religious leaders accountable for negative statements about homosexuality.’” An editing error introduced the wrong word, gantlet.

Unibrow might not make cut — Anthony Davis made the unibrow look trendy during Kentucky’s run to the national championship and it picked up speed as the NBA Draft drew closer and the 6-10 freshman was a lock to be the No. 1 overall pick.

HOCKEY Crosby gets 12-year deal The Pittsburgh Penguins and center Sidney Crosby agreed to a 12-year, $104.4 million contract extension Thursday, despite concussion like symptoms that sidelined him for most of the past two seasons.

VOLLEYBALL Pulliza, Norton headed to China Arkansas Coach Robert Pulliza and outside hitter Jasmine Norton will spend two weeks with the U.S. national team at the China-USA Challenge Invitational in China.

More global banks are being investigated in the reported financial-market manipulation that led to fines of $453 million against Barclays Bank, British Treasury chief George Osborne said Thursday, driving financial stocks lower.

Summer Advantage, a voluntary program of Entergy Arkansas designed to reward customers for saving electricity, has attracted 548 customers since its start June 1. The company hopes to continue to sign up customers.

Nissan Motor Co. said it will hire at least 1,000 more workers and build the Sentra car at its Canton, Miss., plant as the Japanese car maker expands North American production to help counter a strong yen.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “If Bob Diamond had a scintilla of shame, he would resign. If Barclays’ board had an inch of backbone between them, they would sack him.” Matthew Oakshott, a member of the House of Lords, speaking about the chief executive officer of Barclays Bank Article, 1D

There are films that sneak up and surprise you with their depth and carefully crafted plot points. Then there are films that cause certain (female) moviegoers to yell upon entering the theater, “I got my dollar bills ready!”

Your Sister’s Sister is one of those films that you might very well want to see if you’re interested in the theory and practice of film making, if you’re a particular fan of any of the three principal actors or if you simply want to keep current with what’s happening in the world of American independent cinema.

It has gotten to the point where you can picture writer/director Wes Anderson and one of his frequent collaborators — let’s say Roman Coppola — sitting around their ironically ornamented studio office tossing ideas back and forth like a pint-size Nerf football, trying to conjure up the next project that fits into Anderson’s famously particular aesthetic.

The title Lola Versus is misleading insofar as it conjures up all sorts of action packed imagery — the unsuspecting might walk in hoping for something reminiscent of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World or maybe even a Kill Bill clone featuring up-and-coming indie princess Greta Gerwig as the lead blonde seeking vengeance against her ex-lovers with quick cuts and flashy graphics.

Your Sister’s Sister, the latest film from director Lynn Shelton (Humpday), stars Mark Duplass as Jack, a man in alcoholic depression, who takes his best friend, Iris (Emily Blunt), up on her offer to use her family’s remote cabin as a place to clear his head and recharge his spirit. But when he arrives there, he finds Iris’ older sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), ensconced there after the breakup of her longtime relationship.

(opening dates are tentative) The Amazing Spider-Man, PG-13 Andrew Garfield plays the title teenager-turned web-slinging-superhero in “a different side of the Peter Parker story,” involving a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his late father, the quest to understand his parents’ disappearance and the lab of his father’s former partner and his Lizard alter-ego.

New this week Madea’s Witness Protection PG-13 The gentle chief financial officer of a Wall Street investment bank (Eugene Levy) with growing family problems who escapes into the witness protection program — hiding out, natch, with Madea (writer-director Tyler Perry) — when it turns out his firm has been operating a mob-backed Ponzi scheme and that he has been set up as the fall guy.

Happy birthday. A strange series of events begins at the start of July, and you’ll make sweet success of what comes.The next six months will challenge you in the way that windmills challenged Don Quixote.

DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I admit I wasn’t a very good mother, and now my children don’t want anything to do with me. They didn’t even call or send me a card on Mother’s Day. I know I can’t undo the past, but is there anything I can do to change this? — V.R.

1. Who portrayed “the monster” in the 1931 film? 2. What was the name of scientist Henry Frankenstein’s assistant? 3. What was the devoted assistant’s deformity? 4.What does the scientist exclaim when the monster first moves? 5. What mishap results in the monster knowing only hate, horror and murder?

Colorado Springs officials said Thursday that hundreds of homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire that has encroached on the state’s second-largest city and threatened the U.S. Air Force Academy.

In this week’s MovieStyle, critic Piers Marchant regards the much anticipated (by some of us anyway) new Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom and finds it a welcome, if familiar addition to Anderson’s distinctive oeurve.

Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. tumbled 4 percent Thursday morning as a published report said that the bank’s losses on a bad trade may reach as much as $9 billion — far higher than the estimated $2 billion loss disclosed last month.

Politicians from around the state joined other Arkansans with their own opinions of Wednesday's ruling by the United States Supreme Court that upheld a majority of the healthcare reform act put in place by the federal government.

Henry Kissinger, 89, the former secretary of state who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said in Poland that he doesn’t think the statement, “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” originated with him, adding: “I am not sure I actually said it. But it’s a good statement so why not take credit for it?” Raul Rodriguez, 46, who contended Texas’ version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a Houston-area neighbor after an argument about a noisy party, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2010 murder of Kelly Danaher, 36.

Fire crews fought to save the U.S. Air Force Academy, and residents begged for information on the fate of their homes Wednesday after a night of terror sent thousands of people fleeing a raging Colorado Springs wildfire.

Congressional negotiators Wednesday agreed on legislation to maintain current transportation spending for 27 months, focus federal dollars on highways and bridges and give states more flexibility in using money from Washington.

Eighty-four years after Little Rock’s last highly publicized blasphemy trial, a group representing the nation’s “nontheistic community” today hopes to begin organizing a state chapter to lobby the Legislature.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “There’s more water that anybody, no matter how old they are, has ever remembered seeing. It’s not just people on the river, it’s neighborhoods, it’s places that have never been flooded.” Alan Brock, Wakulla County, Fla., commission chairman, on the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby Article, this page Vote on Holder a go, Boehner says WASHINGTON — Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that the House will move forward with a contempt-of-Congress vote today against Attorney General Eric Holder over the botched gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious.

The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate. We correct all errors of fact. If you know of an error, write: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette SUSAN SCANTLIN Editor, Northwest Arkansas P.O. Box 7 Springdale, Ark. 72765 or call (479) 365-2960 during business hours Monday through Friday.

The Library of Congress announced Wednesday that, thanks to Seth Mac-Farlane, it has the papers of Carl Sagan, who spoke to mass audiences about the mysteries of the universe and the origins of life. While MacFarlane never owned the late scientist’s papers, he covered the undisclosed costs of donating them to the library.

Attorney General Eric Schnei derman of New York has begun investigating contributions to tax-exempt groups that are heavily involved in political campaigns, focusing on a case involving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been one of the largest outside groups seeking to influence recent elections but is not required to disclose its donors.

Two more instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio have been charged in a growing sexual scandal involving trainers and female recruits at one of the nation’s busiest military training centers.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “You could see it as a last piece in a jigsaw peace process, which has been very slowly and carefully put together over 20 years.” Diarmaid Ferriter, a professor of modern history at University College Dublin, on the shaking of hands between Queen Elizabeth II and a former Irish Republican Army commander Article, this page 2 bodies found in Ontario mall ruin ELLIOT LAKE, Ontario — Officials recovered two bodies after dismantling a piece of a partially collapsed Ontario shopping mall Wednesday and said they are confident no other victims are inside. The renewed rescue effort came after angry residents shouted down fears that the unstable structure made the work too risky to continue.

Syria said Wednesday that rebels stormed a pro-government television station in a Damascus suburb, killing employees and blowing up the station in a pre-dawn assault, but rebels said the attackers were defectors from the elite Republican Guard, considered to be the most loyal core defenders of President Bashar Assad.

Dockworkers rushed to unload stacked shipping containers from a cargo ship that arrived in New Jersey from the Middle East on Wednesday after a Coast Guard inspection team heard knocking for about two hours that suggested stowaways might be inside one of the boxes.

A federal judge Wednesday rejected a request from the Obama administration to put an immediate stop to the state of Florida’s noncitizen voter purge program. But an attorney for the state said the program would remain halted until the state can get better information on who is a citizen.

Carpet weavers from a rural village in Morocco used driftwood they gathered from the banks of the Mississippi River to build large wooden looms in New Orleans — their first stop on a U.S. tour demonstrating their craft.

Prime Minister David Cameron set out ambitious plans Wednesday to replace Britain’s 700-year-old House of Lords, the country’s unelected upper chamber, with a smaller, mostly elected body, taking on a task that has frustrated political leaders for decades.

The long-range transportation planning agency for central Arkansas wants to take a closer look at forming a regional mobility authority to finance transportation-related projects such as the North Belt Freeway.

A former Phillips County jail inmate is suing the county’s sheriff and the Helena-West Helena police chief, saying in a federal lawsuit that they and their officers violated his constitutional rights last year.

Members of the Metropolitan Housing Alliance board received a preliminary report Wednesday from special counsel hired to investigate personnel complaints against the agency’s executive director but did not take any action. Board Chairman Richard Stephens said the board will meet again early next week to discuss the results of the investigation and likely vote on what action to take.

Little Rock and North Little Rock police, and the Pulaski County sheriff’s offi ce will use radar to detect speeding at these locations. Police and sheriff’s deputies may conduct radar checks in other locations as well.

The federal investigation into the death of a construction worker on the University of Arkansas’ Football Operations Center will focus on the subcontractor that employed him, a spokesman for the investigating agency said Wednesday.

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100 YEARS AGO June 28, 1912 In the “Agents’ Bulletin ” for June, issued by the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain system, is a panoramic view of Little Rock taken from the top of the dome of the new state capitol. Beneath the picture is a concise description of Little Rock. Each agent on the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain system receives a copy of this bulletin, thus acquainting many people in as many sections of the United States with Little Rock.

If there were a Hall of Fame for political rhetoric, the phrase “social justice” would deserve a prominent place there. It has the prime virtue of political catchwords: It means many different things to many different people.

New deer regulation cruel I believe Game and Fish’s new regulation banning pet deer is cruel and not well-thought-out. I believe this will mean that it will be illegal to help an orphaned fawn, that we should just let it suffer and starve to death.

For Republicans, nothing captures what they loathe about Barack Obama’s presidency more perfectly than Obamacareit’s Big Government run amok and an existential threat to American liberty. But it turns out Republicans like what’s actually in the law.

Y’all keep those letters to the editor coming. They normally make my day. Be not deterred by the fact that I’m getting ready to slap a couple of letterwriters upside the head—metaphorically, of course.

Happy birthday. Your faith is strong, and when you believe something is possible, you pursue it with great conviction. A brilliant move pumps up your professional life in August. There’s a change in your social lineup as you welcome new friends at the year’s end. A May investment will pay handsomely in five years. Aries and Taurus people adore you.

DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I heard a preacher say once that you can be joyful, even if you aren’t happy. I don’t see how that’s possible, because if I’m not happy, then I’m certainly not joyful. Maybe you can explain what he might have meant. — C.B. DEAR C.B.: What he said is true: We can be joyful, even when our circumstances are bad and life has turned against us.

DEAR CAROLYN: Partner A works long hours outside the home. Partner B is a stay-at-home parent. Weekend rolls around. Partner A wants to spend one day on a personal hobby/activity that would involve interactions with good friends, but not family. B wishes A would spend time with family instead.

Most great book lists concentrate on works of the highest literary or scholarly merit. Think of the Harvard Classics, Harold Bloom’s Western Canon, the Modern Library’s selection of “the 100 best novels of the 20th century.” Here, the compilers imply, are our cultural masterpieces, the Mount Everest all literate people should scale in their lifetime. You haven’t read Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason or James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake? Get cracking and break out the ropes, climbing shoes and pitons.

DEAR HELOISE: I use my mother’s set of dishes, and I love having them as a reminder of her in something she chose more than 45 years ago. The plates have many black marks on them from knives used through the years. I don’t know how (or if it is even possible) to remove those marks. Do you have any suggestions?

1. He attempted to surrender West Point to the British. 2. He led a witch hunt for alleged communists during the 1950s. 3. Noted for “I shall return.” 4. Noted for “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” 5. Revolutionized Southern agriculture with the planting of peanuts and sweet potatoes 6. Proclaimed a security risk for his reluctance to proceed with developing the hydrogen bomb 7. Noted photographer of Western wilderness areas and mountain panoramas 8. Pianist who at 23 won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow 9. Founder of the Christian Science movement Answers 1. Benedict Arnold 2. Joseph McCarthy 3. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 4. Nathan Hale 5. George Washington Carver 6. J. Robert Oppenheimer 7. Ansel Adams 8. Van Cliburn 9. Mary Baker Eddy

Only a malfunctioning phone will cause New Orleans Hornets General Manager Dell Demps to use the full five minutes he’ll get to make 6-11 Kentucky star Anthony Davis the first overall pick in tonight’s NBA Draft.

Arkansas football players Marquel Wade, Maudrecus Humphrey and Andrew Peterson pleaded not guilty to felony burglary and theft charges Wednesday and have been assigned a trial date of Aug. 27 in Washington County Circuit Court before Judge William Storey.

DJ Baxendale, whose pitching helped carry Arkansas to the College Worlds Series this season, signed Wednesday with the Minnesota Twins. Baxendale, a 6-2 right-hander from Jacksonville, was a 10th-round draft pick by the Twins earlier this month before the Razorbacks won the Hous-

BASEBALL Howard to begin rehab Ryan Howard will begin a rehab stint tonight, a day after Chase Utley returned to the Philadelphia Phillies’ lineup. Howard, the 2006 NL MVP, hasn’t played since tearing his left Achilles’ tendon on the final swing of the 2011 season in Game 5 of the NL division series against St. Louis. Howard will serve as the designated hitter for Class A Lakewood. He could return to the Phillies within three weeks. Utley homered in his first at-bat after missing the first 76 games with a chronic problem in both knees.

1. ARKANSAS RIVER (LITTLE ROCK POOL) Bream fishing is good using crickets. Crappie are being caught using minnows. Bass fishing has been fair using topwater baits early in the day. Try sandbar drops later in the mornings. Catfish are being caught with stink bait, chicken liver and cut shad. St. Francis 2. ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL) River Bream fishing is excellent using crickets and worms. Crappie fishing is good using minnows and jigs fished in deep water. Bass fishing is fair. Use topwater baits in the mornings and topwaters and shaky head worms in the evenings. Catfish are being caught on slicks and cut bait.

Former University of Arkansas golfer Stacy Lewis donated $100,000 to the Razorbacks women’s golf program Wednesday to help build an indoor facility for putting and chipping at Blessings Golf Course in Fayetteville. Lewis, the world’s No. 2 women’s golfer, made the announcement Wednesday at Pinnacle Country Club, site of the LPGA NW Arkansas Championship, which begins Friday. Lewis, 27, is second on the LPGA money list with $906,000 in earnings this year. “I say it all the time, I would not be where I am if I had gone to any other university,” said Lewis, who now lives in Florida.

1907 Twelve Washington baserunners stole bases against catcher Branch Rickey as the Senators defeated the New York Yankees 16-5. 1910 Joe Tinker of the Chicago Cubs became the first major leaguer to steal home twice in the same game, an 11-1 victory over Cincinnati. 1919 Carl Mays of Boston pitched two complete games against the New York Yankees. The Red Sox won the first game 2-0 and lost the nightcap 4-1. 1949 Joe DiMaggio played his first series of the year after a bone spur operation and hit.455, with 4 home runs and 9 RBI, as the New York Yankees swept Boston at Fenway Park. 1970 Pittsburgh swept the Chicago Cubs 3-2 and 4-1 in the Pirates’ final games at Forbes Field. 1984 Dwight Evans of the Boston Red Sox completed the cycle with a threerun, 11th-inning home run to beat the Seattle Mariners 9-6. 1986 Phil Niekro of the Cleveland Indians and Don Sutton of the California Angels became the first 300-game winners to start against each other in the 20th century. Neither Niekro nor Sutton got a decision as

John Buck and pinch hitter Logan Morrison connected for consecutive home runs in the seventh inning, rallying the Miami Marlins past St. Louis 5-3 Wednesday night and ending their eight-game losing streak against the Cardinals.

Former Vols RB now a Red Wolf Former Tennessee running back David Oku signed a letter of intent to play football at Arkansas State on Wednesday and enrolled for summer classes in Jonesboro, according to a release from the school.

Bobby Kersee is requesting that USA Track and Field extend its deadline to give his athletes more time to recover. The coach for Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh is pushing for a Tuesday runoff race, should that be the option his sprinters decide to do. To run any sooner, Kersee said, wouldn’t be fair to his athletes. USATF officials said they will wait until after the women’s 200 meters Saturday night at the Olympic track and field trials to finalize plans for breaking a third-place tie in the 100. Felix and Tarmoh technically have until Sunday, when the trials end, to decide betwen a runoff — a winnertake-all race to break the tie — or a coin flip to determine who gets the last spot on the London-bound team in the event.

Spain insisted Wednesday that it will continue to push for European financial aid to be delivered directly to its troubled banks, rather than count as government debt, warning that these were crucial moments for the euro currency union.

The Arkansas Agriculture Board moved quickly Wednesday to select Butch Calhoun, director of the state Department of Rural Services, to be the state’s second agriculture secretary, replacing retiring Agriculture Secretary Richard “Dick” Bell.

Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, said it stands to gain from the worst U.S. Midwest drought in a decade because the difficult conditions may demonstrate its superior yields and create seed shortages for competitors.

State Hospital leaders are investigating whether staff followed monitoring procedures after patients were caught in two acts of “inappropriate sexual conduct” on the same unit where a female patient reported that a male patient raped her April 30.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Our genetics tend to do well in warm, dry conditions. It’s not something that you hope for, but we have an edge in that.” Hugh Grant, Monsanto chief executive officer Article, 1D Google unveils own tablet computer SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Wednesday unveiled a small tablet computer bearing its brand.

Sand used during hydraulic fracturing poses a health risk for workers in the oil and gas industry because the dust can affect the lung’s ability to absorb oxygen, according to an alert issued by federal officials.

NEXT WEEK War: In the summer of 1862, as the Civil War raged and the state Confederate government tried to escape encroaching Union forces, Hot Springs served as temporary state capital. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of its brief tenure as seat of Arkansas government, downtown Hot Springs is hosting A Capital Weekend, July 6-8, with exhibits, music, living history and dancing. Most events are free, but tickets to The Magnolia Ball, 7 p.m. July 7, are $75. Call (501) 624-2701 or visit nps. gov/hosp. NEXT MONTH Raw: Big-name wrestling stars are coming to North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena on the WWE Raw World Tour, 7:30 p.m. July 21. Tickets are $17- $97. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.

Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Pretty Lights tickets Tickets — $36.50 for the first 1,000, $41.50 for the next 1,000, $43.50 for all subsequent tickets sold — go on sale at Ticketmaster outlets at 10 a.m. Friday for the Pretty Lights Illumination Tour concert at 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at Little Rock’s Riverfest Amphitheatre. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com. Period costumes The Arts &amp; Science Center of Southeast Arkansas is seeking 1950s and ’60s clothing to use as costumes for its July 25-29 production of the musical Hairspray.

In past years, R&B group New Edition has reportedly had its problems due to member Bobby Brown’s behavior — which led to his departure from the group in 1986 — and rivalries that cut short 1997’s ill-fated Home Again reunion tour.

Many rock bands deliberate long and hard on choosing a name, wanting something that is perhaps descriptive or intriguing, but almost never potentially offensive. Not so with Chuck Cleaver, whose latest band is named Wussy.

Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges. Restaurant reviewers’ visits are anonymous and all expenses are paid by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Bargain means a meal (without beverage or dessert) typically less than $12.

There has been a palace coup, or a revolution, or something at Early Bird, 5923 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. You will recall that Carson Runnells took over the Heights space and telephone number, (501) 227-7222, from Seoul Korean Cuisine &amp; Grill and owner Dong Ryeol Lee. It turns out, however, that Lee, who had previously operated Eastern Flames in west Little Rock and Hanaroo downtown, hadn’t gone away. We had heard he was occasionally on the premises and apparently was just leasing it or had some other agreement with Runnells, who was promoting a “fresh food” concept for breakfast, lunch and, part of the time, dinner. Hours and menu were irregular, and patrons reported being unable to get anybody to answer the phone.

The Zeta Omicron Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi has announced plans for the 2012 Fulton County Fair beauty pageants and photogenic contests. Pageants will be held during the Fulton County Fair on Aug. 6-11. Contestants must be residents of Fulton County or attend school in the county.

The tines of a pitchfork sank into the fertile soil of Marilee Coker’s flower bed in her backyard in Searcy. She was digging up iris rhizomes for an upcoming sale on Saturday. Popping the mass of roots out of the loosened dirt, Coker explained that the rhizome would be soaked in bleach water to kill any bacteria and prevent diseases from transferring from garden to garden.

The fresh-paint smell was strong inside Jacksonville High School’s cafeteria Friday as a couple of painters rolled bright-white paint over the walls. Despite budget cuts, most of the schools in Jacksonville are getting much needed facelifts and repairs.

Everyone has a favorite comfort food. Mine is creamy chicken and broccoli casserole. It’s full of ooey-gooey melted cheese, creamy sauce, noodles and chicken, with some broccoli thrown in for good measure. It’s simple and delicious, but unfortunately, the classic recipe is not very healthy.

If Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, Independence Day can be characterized as the unofficial party day. With traditions of fireworks and freedom combined with hamburgers and hot dogs char-grilled to perfection, Americans take full advantage of this midsummer break.

The Ozark Foothills FilmFest is accepting entries for its sixth annual Screenwriting Competition. The competition, the only one of its kind in Arkansas, is limited to writers who have not yet had a work produced or optioned. Entries are accepted in two categories: feature screenplay, 90 to 130 pages; and short screenplay, 30 pages or less.

Fulton County Civic clubs and organizations and schools are encouraged to have an educational display at the Fulton County Fair, Aug. 6-11. Tabletop displays will be accepted, and the club or school must furnish its own table and backdrop. The exhibit cannot be more than 4 feet wide. Each booth will be scored, and cash awards will be awarded. A copy of the scorecard is available from the Fulton County Fair office by emailing fultoncountyfair@centurytel.net or calling (870) 895-5565. Educational exhibits can be entered online at www. fultoncountyfair.org, or the booth can be entered on a paper entry form. All entries are due by July 25.

Paralympic swimmer Dr. Grover Evans will join the Jacksonville Parks and Recreation Department for a celebration of Olympic Day at 10 a.m. today at Excell Park. He will share his life story, tell the youth about his Olympic experiences and answer questions about the Olympic movement and its values and ideals. Free youth activities will begin at 11 am. Excell Park is at 1500 Ray Road in Jacksonville at the corner of Ray and Southeastern roads. For more information, call (501) 982-0818.

The Patriotic Spectacular/Military Appreciation Day, held each Independence Day weekend in Jacksonville, honors the military heroes that call central Arkansas home. This year’s celebration will take place Sunday in Jan Crow Stadium at Jacksonville High School, 2400 Linda Lane. The event provides an evening of entertainment and fireworks for the whole family.

In May, Suzanne Crowley said she was afraid to fall asleep at night, afraid her blood-sugar levels would crash or soar. After Sunday night, the Bryant resident says she can rest better knowing her diabetic-alert dog Koda is nearby to let her know if her glucose levels fall too low.

If Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, Independence Day can be characterized as the unofficial party day. With traditions of fireworks and freedom combined with hamburgers and hot dogs char-grilled to perfection, Americans take full advantage of this midsummer break.

Everyone has a favorite comfort food. Mine is creamy chicken and broccoli casserole. It’s full of ooey-gooey melted cheese, creamy sauce, noodles and chicken, with some broccoli thrown in for good measure. It’s simple and delicious, but unfortunately, the classic recipe is not very healthy.

All the familiar characters were there — Curious George, the Little Mermaid, Dr. Seuss characters, Lemony Snicket and many more. United for Reading, a book drive for the United Way of Central Arkansas’ Day of Action on June 21, paid off in a big way.

Farmers and landowners in portions of Conway, Yell, Pope and Van Buren counties have until Sunday to submit applications to receive financial assistance to implement conservation practices through the Point Remove Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watershed Initiative project.

If Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, Independence Day c an b e char ac ter i z e d as the unofficial party day. With traditions of fireworks and freedom combined with hamburgers and hot dogs char-grilled to perfection, Americans take full advantage of this midsummer break.

Everyone has a favorite comfort food. Mine is creamy chicken and broccoli casserole. It’s full of ooey-gooey melted cheese, creamy sauce, noodles and chicken, with some broccoli thrown in for good measure. It’s simple and delicious, but unfortunately, the classic recipe is not very healthy.

Desserts can be tricky for a Seriously Simple cook, especially as the temperature goes up. Making pie dough or baking a fancy cake isn’t what I have in mind in the heat of the season. This icy confection says it all — five minutes for a wow-factor sweet.

Donations of food and serving items are needed for day camps being held in July and August at the Twin Groves and Mount Vernon libraries, said Judy Lovell, assistant director of the Faulkner County Library.

A company Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway says preyed on veterans for their education benefits has agreed to pay a total of $2.5 million to 20 states and turn over its website to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

In past years, R&B group New Edition has reportedly had its problems due to member Bobby Brown’s behavior — which led to his departure from the group in 1986 — and rivalries that cut short 1997’s ill-fated Home Again reunion tour, Helaine R. Williams writes in Thursday’s Arkansas Weekend Section.

Queen Elizabeth II and a former Irish Republican Army commander offered each other the hand of peace Wednesday in a long-awaited encounter symbolizing Northern Ireland’s progress in achieving reconciliation after decades of violence.

Gunmen raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV station early Wednesday, killing seven employees, kidnapping others and demolishing buildings, officials said. The government blamed terrorists and described the killings as a "massacre."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration is pleased so far with commitments made by Egypt’s Islamist president-elect, Mohammed Morsi, but will reserve judgment on his government until it is up and running.

A stubborn and towering wildfire jumped firefighters' perimeter lines in the hills overlooking Colorado Springs, forcing frantic mandatory evacuation notices for more than 32,000 residents, including the U.S. Air Force Academy, and destroying an unknown number of homes.

The Environmental Protection Agency was “unambiguously correct” in moving to set limits on industrial and automotive emissions of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

Turkey warned Syria to keep its forces away from the countries’ troubled border or risk an armed response — a furious reply on Tuesday to last week’s downing of a Turkish military plane by the Damascus regime.

Top European officials have called on countries that use the euro to surrender more control over their national budgets, a move apparently aimed at easing Germany’s fears of sharing debt burdens with struggling governments like Spain or Italy.

Obama administration officials and House Republican staff members failed on Tuesday to resolve a document dispute that could lead to a precedent-setting contempt of Congress vote Thursday against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Rielle Hunter, who has written a book, What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me, told ABC’s Good Morning America that she and the former presidential candidate “are no longer a couple,” although Edwards will still be involved with their 4-year-old daughter, Quinn, who lives with Hunter.

Little Rock police are investigating how participants were chosen for a pilot sewer-line-replacement study after two city directors received free work on their sewer lines from the Little Rock Wastewater Utility.

Queen Elizabeth II prayed together Tuesday with Catholic and Protestant leaders from across Northern Ireland as this long-divided land demonstrated its rising faith in a shared future and braced for a peacemaking milestone that has been a quarter-century in the making.

Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist who became one of her era’s most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits such as Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, died Tuesday night in Manhattan. She was 71.

Sen. Orrin Hatch won the Republican primary in Utah on Tuesday, turning back a challenge from Tea Party forces hoping to jolt the party again by defeating an incumbent who occasionally strayed from the movement’s focus on shrinking the federal government.

Republican senators on Tuesday welcomed a move by the director of national intelligence to snuff out leaks of classified information but insisted that a special counsel is needed to investigate the Obama administration and recent disclosures.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “This is sheer, basic, low-level politics at its best. I don’t think that’s going to create a single job.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as House Republicans prepared to vote this week on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress Article, 1A Virginia university reinstates chief CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to reinstate the president they had forced to resign over concerns that the university was not adapting fast enough to financial and technological pressures.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Any military element that approaches the Turkish border from Syria and poses a security risk and danger will be regarded as a threat and treated as a military target.” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Article, 1A Militants routed from Somali town MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of pro-government troops swept into a Somali town north of the capital Tuesday, forcing al-Shabab fighters to flee in the latest success against the al-Qaidalinked militants, witnesses and a military official said.

An Egyptian court suspended Tuesday a government decision allowing military police and intelligence agents to arrest civilians, a setback for the country’s military rulers after the decree drew an outcry from opponents who accused them of trying to impose martial law.

Israel began the evacuation of an illegal West Bank settlement outpost Tuesday after persuading dozens of residents to leave the enclave without the violence that has plagued similar pullouts in the past.

The United States and Russia are planning to enhance cooperation in nuclear-reactor design while maintaining joint efforts to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands, officials said Tuesday.

Rescue workers equipped only with hand-held tools gave up their search Tuesday and waited for bulldozers to arrive to help find about 100 people who residents said were missing after landslides struck Uganda’s mountainous east.

The Pulaski County Quorum Court approved an amended ordinance Tuesday night that will transfer $242,000 from the county’s general fund to the jail operation budget when cities in the county commit to paying their share of jail expansion costs.

Sheffield Nelson asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to investigate an Exxon Mobil subsidiary and Southwestern Energy, alleging that they have misled the public and their shareholders in the course of opposing an increase in the severance tax on natural gas.

A $100,000 assist from Pulaski County to North Little Rock will help move along conversion of the old Levy Spur rail line into a paved, lighted trail for walkers, joggers and cyclists through the city’s Levy area, city officials said Tuesday.

The federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring, which is responsible for monitoring desegregation plan compliance in the Pulaski County Special School District, has proposed a $233,438 budget for 2012-13 that reflects reduced staffing and office rental costs.

A Tulsa man investigators dubbed the “fake beard bandit” was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 11 years and three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to eight bank robberies and one attempted robbery in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Meeting announcements published exclusively on Arkansas Online, the newspaper’s website, can be found at www.arkansasonline.com/tools/ meetings/. An electronic form is available on the website to submit support group meeting announcements or changes. Readers can access that form by going to www.arkansasonline.com/contact/ supportgroupform/ and submitting the appropriate information.

The former fiscal controller of Henry Corp. was sentenced to five years’ probation Monday and ordered to spend 10 days in jail for his role in stealing from the Little Rock property management company.

100 YEARS AGO June 27, 1912 About $5,000 worth of gambling devices, recently seized by Sheriff Norman A. Beller and his deputies in Argenta, were burned yesterday on the lawn north of the county courthouse. The paraphernalia consisted of roulette, Klondike, poker, “crap” and other tables and a quantity of cards, dice and chips, employed in the operating of gambling games. The stuff was saturated with coal oil and the match was applied by Sheriff Beller, and in a short while the pile of mahogany tables was reduced to ashes.

THERE was some grumbling around Arkansas over the weekend when the papers came out with the news from on high. Specifically from the state’s highest court. Even though much of the attention of late has been on that other Supreme Court, the one on the federal level. But last week Arkansas’ own Supremes made news, too.

The Olympic charter declares that discrimination by gender is “incompatible with belonging” to the Olympic movement, and that “the practice of sport is a human right.” These noble principles have long been ignored in Saudi Arabia, which has never sent a female athlete to the adult games.

The United States has been at war with a shadowy, elusive enemy for more than a decade. It is a war without borders and front lines, fought by an enemy that hides behind civilian populations and in dark corners. The terrorist group al-Qaida carried out an infamous and devastating attack on Sept. 11, 2001, and has been plotting attacks ever since; its members would love to repeat that success. It is only through the vigilance, courage and successful tactics of the men and women in the U.S. armed forces and intelligence services that those plots have been thwarted.

The sun was already high in the June sky by the time I and Paul Austin, the executive director of the Arkansas Humanities Council, arrived at Historic Washington State Park. In a small field in the middle of one of this state’s most historic communities, tarps helped keep the early summer sun off the professional archaeologists and volunteers who were hard at work.

The BCS, often criticized and occasionally despised since its implementation in 1998, will be dead and gone by the 2014 season. In its place will be a four-team playoff of national semifinals and a championship game.

Olive Branch (Miss.) Coach Scott Samsel knew D’Arthur Cowan could be a special football player when he saw Cowan as a sophomore.
Seeing promising athletes is nothing new to Samsel or Olive Branch, which churned out 18 college football signees in February.

MOTOR SPORTS Kenseth to leave team NASCAR points leader Matt Kenseth, one of the longest-tenured drivers in the series, is leaving Roush Fenway Racing at the end of the season. He will be replaced in the No. 17 Ford — the car he has driven for all but one of his 452 career starts — by Nationwide Series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kenseth’s long relationship with Ford will apparently come to an end. He is believed to be headed to Joe Gibbs Racing, either in Joey Logano’s No. 20 Toyota or a fourth unannounced team. Kenseth did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday but tweeted about his departure. “I’m very thankful to Jack Roush for the opportunities he’s given me over the past 14 years. Together we have enjoyed a lot of success,” he posted. “And as a team we are committed as ever to the remainder of the 2012 season and chasing a 3rd sprint cup title for Jack and RFR.” Kenseth has won 22 Cup races overall, and the 2003 championship. In the Nationwide Series, Kenseth has won 26 races driving for Rous

BASEBALL Bates signs with Royals Former Arkansas outfielder Sam Bates signed Tuesday with the Kansas City Royals after being selected in the 28th round of the major league draft earlier this month. Bates is the second former Razorback to sign a professional contract in the past two days, following third baseman Matt Reynolds, who signed Monday with the New York Mets. Bates, of Cabot, started 37 games as a senior and hit.240 with 6 home runs and 25 RBI. In two seasons with the Razorbacks, Bates played in 70 games, including 56 starts, and had a.239 batting average with 6 home runs and 32 RBI. Bates played two years at Crowder College in Neosho, Mo., before transferring to Arkansas. — Rick Fires Reynolds honored again Former Arkansas third baseman Matt Reynolds was named a third-team All-American by Perfect Game and second-team All-South Region by the American Baseball Coaches Association, the school announced Tuesday. Reynolds, who just completed his junior season, already had been named a third-team All-Ameri

1917 Catcher Hank Gowdy of the Boston Braves became the first major league player to enter military service in World War I. 1939 The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played a 23-inning, 2- tie. Whit Wyatt pitched the first 16 innings for the Dodgers. Both clubs played a 26-inning tie in 1920, also at Braves Field. 1958 Billy Pierce of the Chicago White Sox retired 26 consecutive Washington batters before pinch-hitter Ed Fitzgerald hit a double just inside the right-field line for the only hit. Pierce then struck out Albie Pearson on three pitches and beat the Senators 3-0. 1973 Texas Rangers pitcher David Clyde, 18, pitched 5 innings, struck out 8 and allowed 1 hit in his first major league start. Texas beat the Minnesota Twins -3 before 35,698 fans — the Rangers’ first home sellout at Arlington Stadium. 1980 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jerry Reuss pitched a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants in an 8-0 victory at Candlestick Park. 1986 San Francisco rookie Robby Thompson set a major league recor

The NBA has awarded the Boston Celtics a 2013 second-round pick of the Oklahoma City Thunder as part of a trade disclosure dispute ruling involving Jeff Green, who sat out this season after heart surgery. Commissioner David Stern determined Tuesday there was no evidence of bad faith or intent to withhold information on the part of the Thunder, but that their cardiologists had knowledge about Green that was not shared with their own team management and should have been disclosed to the Celtics. Boston acquired Green at the 2011 trade deadline in a deal that sent Kendrick Perkins to Oklahoma City. NBA teams are required to disclose to each other in connection with trades a player’s past history that could affect his ability to play in the future.

The Minnesota Timberwolves were in the market for a capable perimeter shooter, ideally a veteran with experience in Coach Rick Adelman’s system to help balance a front court heavy roster. The Houston Rockets could be looking for something much, much bigger.

Wal-Mart Canada said Tuesday that it will open 47 hiring centers across that nation as it seeks to fill an anticipated 4,000 new jobs, a move that’s driven in part by the company’s purchase last year of leasehold rights of 39 former Zellers Inc. stores.

USDA loan to help build nursing home Clay County Electric Cooperative Corp. has been selected to receive a $500,000 rural economic development loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency said in a news release Tuesday.

A company vice president referring to a call with Encana to discuss oil and gas leases being auctioned off in northern Michigan in 2010, according to Reuters, which didn’t state from where it obtained the messages.

Independence Day, for many, is a day of lounging at “the lake” with family and friends, noshing on burgers, hot dogs, potato salad and baked beans between bouts of shooting off bottle rockets and firecrackers.

We love infusing soups, stews, beverages and more with the flavor of fresh herbs and spices. We hate the hassle of tying said herbs and spices in cheesecloth, when we remember to buy cheesecloth. So when we saw this Herb Infuser from Pampered Chef we were intrigued. The perforated, soft silicone tube can also be used to infuse water, lemonades and iced teas with herbs or fruit. Heat resistant to 480 degrees and dishwasher safe.

We’ve been on a pancakes-for-dinner kick as of late. Our flapjack of choice isn’t sweet and syrupy, but savory and studded with fresh vegetables. Sometimes we make them with corn. Other times they’re filled with bits of bacon and red bell pepper. These savory pancakes are made with cornbread mix, black-eyed peas and a touch of Southwest seasoning. When paired with thick slices of ripe tomatoes and broccoli slaw, the cakes make a tasty vegetarian supper.

Besides adding smoke flavor, grilling cabbage brings out the vegetable’s natural sweetness. The result makes for an easy accompaniment to grilled meats, particularly pork. Or it can be the basis for a twist on your favorite coleslaw recipe. The best part: The cabbage can be grilled, cooled and refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 1 week. Grilled Cabbage 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for the grill rack 1 medium green or red cabbage (about 2 1/2 pounds) Sea salt Ground black pepper Special equipment: Grill basket Prepare grill for direct medium-high heat. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames.

DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I notice in your column that you often tell people to commit their lives to Jesus, but what exactly does that mean? I think I believe in Jesus, but is that enough? I’m facing some health problems, and I don’t want to make a mistake and miss out on heaven. — K.G. DEAR K.G.: I’m thankful you want to make sure you will go to heaven when you die, because no matter how short or long your life turns out to be, some day you will die — and then it will be too late. The Bible warns, “How shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation?” (Hebrews 2:3).

Happy birthday. You’ll advance a variety of interests this year as you systematically work your way through books, workshops and classes on the subjects that interest you. Acquiring knowledge leads to new friendships, jobs and adventures. September makes love your main focus. December brings family additions. Cancer and Scorpio people adore you.

With Independence Day just around the corner, it seems the perfect time to reflect on America’s journey to becoming a wine producing country. In the 16th century, the first settlers found an abundance of native vines growing on the East Coast. The first challenge for winemakers in Virginia and the Carolina colonies was not finding an indigenous grape that would thrive, but finding one that could satisfy European palates.

About every five weeks my dog, Simone, visits her groomer for a “spa day,” during which she’s bathed in a fragrant oatmeal shampoo and gets her hair trimmed and nails clipped. In the past year, she’s been to the veterinarian twice, for a senior wellness check-up and to have her teeth cleaned.

Sheep need shepherds and when the shepherd can’t be there, they need guardians. With the passing of our oldest farm dog last year, our team of four-legged guardians dwindled to two: Bella, who mostly barks at birds, and Boo, the best guard dog ever.

Not too many years ago, if you got sick, you went to see your family doctor, who maybe prescribed some medicine to make you well. You took your prescription to the corner drugstore, where you knew the guy behind the counter and he knew you.

DEAR JEANNE AND LEONARD : Would I be considered cheap if I asked to have my own check when I go out to dinner with my sisters-inlaw and some other friends? I enjoy these monthly girls’ nights out. But since I don’t drink and everyone else does (try three bottles of wine and multiple rounds of Cosmos), splitting the check evenly at the end of the evening doesn’t seem fair. My husband says to go with the flow and not cause trouble or look cheap. But I hate paying $100 when my meal costs only half as much. — Gigi C. DEAR GIGI: We wouldn’t call it cheap if you asked the waiter for your own check, but your friends might. After all, they probably don’t want to admit to themselves that they’ve been taking advantage of you.

1. Who played the title role? 2. By what nickname was the king known in the film? 3. What were the names of the king’s two daughters? 4. In what year were there three British kings? 5. What was Geoffrey Rush’s character’s major occupation during the film? 6. Which king abdicated? 7. Who was the American divorcee whom he married? 8.Who portrayed the king’s wife, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother)? 9. The “speech” was delivered on Sept. 3 of what year? Answers 1. Colin Firth 2. “Bertie” 3. Elizabeth and Margaret 4. 1936 (also 1066) 5. Speech therapist 6. Edward VIII 7. Wallis Simpson 8. Helena Bonham Carter 9. 1939

DEAR HELOISE: Are there any recycling ideas for used kitchen sponges? I buy the kind with the sponge on one side and scrubber on the other. I use one for a couple of weeks (regularly disinfecting it with bleach), but hate to throw it away when I replace it.

Snapple is a company that never sleeps. Or at least the people who create the tea-based beverages never do. It seems like every time I turn around they’re introducing new flavors, and they’ve done it again with the new Lightly Sweetened Teas that are sweetened with a touch of real sugar. They come in Peach Passionfruit and Cherry Pomegranate flavors.

Top European officials have called on countries that use the euro to surrender more control over their national budgets, a move apparently aimed at easing Germany's fears of sharing debt burdens with struggling governments like Spain or Italy.

The Arkansas Ethics Commission found probable cause that a state police captain who provided security for former Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino broke the law when he accepted tickets and a Sugar Bowl ring from the Arkansas football program.

Nucor Corp. said Tuesday that Nucor-Yamato Steel Co., a joint venture between Nucor and Yamato Kogyo Co. Ltd., has approved a $115 million plan to expand the production of hot rolled sheet piling at Nucor’s steel mill in Blytheville.

Turkey warned Tuesday that any Syrian military unit approaching its border will be treated as a direct threat, a serious escalation in tensions days after Syria shot a Turkish military plane out of the sky.

Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and loser of the presidential runoff, left Egypt Tuesday with most of his family for the United Arab Emirates hours after the prosecutor general opened an investigation into allegations he wasted public funds during his 8-year term as a civil aviation minister in the ousted regime.

Parts of the main interstate highway across northern Florida were closed by flooding Tuesday as Tropical Storm Debby hung stubbornly offshore over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening up to two feet of rain in places.

The U.S. Supreme Court scaled back Arizona’s first-of-its kind crackdown on illegal aliens, striking down three provisions in a decision that asserts the federal government’s exclusive role to set immigration policy.

Thirty-four members of Congress took steps to recast their financial portfolios during the financial crisis after meetings or phone calls with top Treasury or Federal Reserve officials, according to a Washington Post examination of appointment calendars and congressional disclosure forms.

The National Park Service sent more rangers to Mount Rainier National Park to help recover the body of a colleague who fell to his death during a rescue operation, but it could be midweek before anyone can reach the site, a spokesman said Monday.

In other Supreme Court actions on Monday, justices: Agreed to take up a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that federal regulators should treat runoff from logging roads in industrial timberlands the same way as pollution discharged from a factory.

Practically parked off Florida’s Gulf Coast since the weekend, Tropical Storm Debby raked the Tampa Bay area with high wind and heavy rain Monday in a drenching that could top 2 feet over the next few days and trigger widespread flooding.

Two freight trains that collided in an Oklahoma wheat field weren’t blowing their horns or flashing their lights as they hurtled toward each other, according to a long-haul trucker who watched helplessly from a highway as the locomotives collided head-on.

Syrian forces opened fire on a Turkish rescue aircraft as it searched for crewmen missing after a warplane was downed in the Mediterranean, prompting a warning from the Turkish military, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday.

The new Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi moved first thing Monday morning into the office once occupied by his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak and started work on forming a government even before he had a clear picture of what he could do after the ruling military stripped most of the major powers from his post.

Two federal police officers suspected of working for drug traffickers opened fire on fellow officers in a crowded food court at Mexico City’s international airport on Monday, killing three policemen as panicked witnesses dove for cover, officials said.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We do not have any hostile intentions against the Turkish people or the Turkish government.” Jihad Makdissi, Syria’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, saying his country was acting in defense when it shot down a Turkish jet Friday Article, this page

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Arizona may have understandable frustrations with the problems caused by illegal immigration while that process continues, but the state may not pursue policies that undermine federal law.” Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a ruling that scaled back Arizona’s illegal immigration law Article, 1A

Valerie Bruno of Price, Utah, has filed a formal complaint against juvenile-court Judge Scott Johansen with the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission, contending she felt intimidated when Johansen told her that he would reduce her 13-yearold daughter’s sentence for cutting off the hair of a 3-year-old girl with scissors if she chopped off the teen’s ponytail in court.

Groups who favor further restrictions on illegal aliens by the state of Arkansas said they found elements of victory in Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down key parts of an Arizona law aimed at deterring illegal immigration. So did those who oppose further restrictions.

In a case with origins in Arkansas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a mandatory life sentence without possibility for parole for children who commit murder constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” that is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution.

A U.S. Supreme Court opinion Monday that allows corporate contributions in state-level elections has no bearing on a proposed Arkansas initiated act that would restrict corporations and unions from donating directly to candidates, supporters of the Arkansas proposal said.

The Arkansas Ethics Commission has found probable cause that state police Capt. Lance King violated state law when he accepted season football tickets, bowl tickets and a Sugar Bowl ring from the University of Arkansas’ football program.

Parents and community members with ties to two Little Rock School District elementary schools appealed Monday to Superintendent Morris Holmes and the School Board to reverse plans to transfer the Western Hills and Williams Traditional Magnet principals.

A Pulaski County circuit judge said Monday that he had no authority to revoke the bond of a 21-year-old Little Rock man accused in two shootings and described by prosecutors as a “highly dangerous” gang member.

River Rail streetcars won’t have service on Third Street or to the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock today, shutting down two platform stops because of construction work by CenterPoint Energy.

New work on the Interstate 430/630 interchange in west Little Rock will leave the southbound entrance ramp to I-430 from South Shackleford and Hermitage roads closed for several months beginning Wednesday, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department said.

Meeting announcements published exclusively on Arkansas Online, the newspaper’s website, can be found at www.arkansasonline.com/tools/meetings/. An electronic form is available on the website to submit support group meeting announcements or changes. Readers can access that form by going to www.arkansasonline.com/contact/supportgroupform/ and submitting the appropriate information.

100 YEARS AGO June 26, 1912 FORT SMITH — Justice courts were criticized for piling up expense accounts against the city with unimportant criminal cases by the Grand Jury of the Fort Smith district, which adjourned today with 70 indictments. The jury declared many citizens have been named deputy constables so that they may be entitled to carry revolvers.

HMMM. Maybe the senator from Florida that so many are hoping will become Mitt Romney’s running mate this year isn’t ready for prime time. He may not understand how big-time politics works. He seems so. . . naive.

Every harvest season, U.S. produce growers have a narrow window in which the success of an entire year’s work is dependent on human labor. With some crops, this window is only a few days. But finding a secure, reliable work force to bring in the harvest can be extremely difficult.

EVER SINCE Marco Rubio came out of nowhere—certainly not the Republican establishment in Florida—to become one of his party’s bright hopes on the national level, his star has waxed and waned. And sometimes gone into eclipse.

To grow to maturity A recent Terry Mattingly column mentioned part of the president’s commencement address in 2009 at Notre Dame, which stated, “It is beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what he asks of us.” The word of God and I disagree.

The SEC isn’t annexing Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands as part of a European expansion plan secretly drawn up by Commissioner Mike Slive, athletic directors and ESPN at the conference’s spring meetings.

Four years ago at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, triple jumper Amanda Smock failed to qualify for the Beijing Games. Her father, Glen Thieschafer, accompanied her on that trip to Hayward Field and when they returned home to Minnesota, he took the credential from around his neck, scratched out “2008” and scribbled “2012.”

ATHLETICS Ten chosen for UA hall Ten former Arkansas Razorbacks from football, basketball baseball and track and field have been elected to the UA Sports Hall of Honor 2012 induction class, the UA has announced.

Americans bought new homes in May at the fastest pace in more than two years, the Commerce Department said Monday. The increase suggests a modest recovery is continuing in the U.S. housing market, despite weaker job growth.

Baldor Electric of Fort Smith has agreed to pay $2 million in back wages and interest to settle allegations of systemic discrimination against women and minorities in its hiring practices, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday.

Shares of Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. fell Monday after federal regulators unexpectedly delayed for a second time a decision on whether to approve the companies’ highly touted experimental anti-clotting drug Eliquis.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority believes the world economy offers opportunities for it and other patient investors, despite an uncertain outlook, the government-run fund’s managing director said in a report released Monday.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Our shared goal is to create lasting change so that anyone who comes looking for work at Baldor can be sure that discrimination will never be a factor in determining who gets the job.” Hilda Solis, U.S. secretary of labor Article, 1D

Public relations firm, Wal-Mart end pact Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it has parted ways with a public relations firm whose employee was found to have posed as a reporter at an event staged by Wal-Mart critics.

Guided by a thumping bass line from their backing band, the Jackson brothers strut forward to a row of four microphones, thrusting their pelvises along the way, before launching into “Can’t Let Her Get Away,” a song their superstar sibling released on his Dangerous album. If they had Afros and matching powder blue suits, it might feel like 1977 again.

Kenny Chesney Welcome to the Fishbowl BNA B Well, this is an improvement over Kenny Chesney’s last one, the ponderous Hemingway’s Whiskey that marked the country singer’s return after a hiatus. Of course country fans didn’t seem to think so, as they adored Chesney as much as, if not more than, before the short time off.

DEAR READERS: The summer driving season is here, and with more people on the roads, you might encounter more emergency vehicles than usual. What do you do when you see a police car or an ambulance with its lights and siren on?

1. Who was nicknamed “Ol’ Blue Eyes” ? 2. Stories about the Battle of Bunker Hill popularized this “eyes” quotation. 3. Name of Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate, also a James Bond film title 4. It’s also known as conjunctivitis. 5. Term for a specialist in medical and surgical eye problems

A Texas prisons spokesman says the state has 27 inmates who may get new sentences under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says states cannot mandate life in prison without parole for juvenile offenders.

The new Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi moved first thing Monday morning into the office once occupied by his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak and started work on forming a government even before he had a clear picture of what he could do after the ruling military stripped most of the major powers from his post.

The Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed its 2-year-old decision allowing corporations to spend freely to influence elections. The justices struck down a Montana law limiting corporate campaign spending.

Wildfires damaged more than a dozen Colorado homes over the weekend and forced evacuations for thousands more while shrouding top state tourist destinations in smoke and emptying hotels and campgrounds ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

Turkey’s foreign minister said Sunday that his country would hold emergency talks with NATO in the next few days over the downing of one of its jet fighters by Syria, claiming the plane was attacked in international airspace.

Islamist Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner Sunday in Egypt’s first free presidential election in history, closing the tumultuous first phase of a democratic transition and opening a new struggle with the still dominant military rulers who recently stripped the presidency of most of its powers.

One hundred thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found.

The tally of homes destroyed by a two-week old wildfire in northern Colorado rose to 248 on Sunday as residents of a subdivision near Fort Collins learned that 57 more homes in their neighborhood had burned, authorities said.

Paraguay’s new government battled a wave of criticism Sunday as several of the nation’s closest allies condemned the dismissal of President Fernando Lugo by lawmakers, some calling it a congressional coup.

A top radical Islamist sect member blamed for a deadly Christmas Day church bombing in Nigeria has been killed by security forces, said the sect, which demonstrated in a prison break Sunday that his death has not affected its ability to keep fighting.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I wouldn’t have been here between your hands as the first elected president without... the blood, the tears, and sacrifices of the martyrs.” Mohammed Morsi, paying tribute to Egyptians killed in last year’s uprising, after being declared the winner of Egypt’s presidential election Article, 1A

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think it’s the best vacation ever. This is what the real world is about. There’s a lot of people that need help.” Mark Stein of Morristown, N.J., who spent the first night of a Colorado vacation setting up cots for wildfire evacuees with his family Article, this page

Former talk-show host Regis Philbin received a fond farewell at the 39th annual Daytime Emmys on Saturday as his old show, Live with Regis and Kelly, was saluted as best entertainment talk show (its first-ever nod in that category) and for best talk-show hosts.

Alex Trebek was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital after he suffered a mild heart attack, but the 71-year-old Jeopardy! host is expected to fully recover before the game show resumes production on a new season next month.

Arkansas recorded the second-highest number of lightning flashes in the nation in 2011 with nearly 1.3 million cloud-to-ground occurrences, according to data released from the National Weather Service in North Little Rock.

Gen. Norton Schwartz, chief of staff of the Air Force, returned home to Little Rock Air Force Base last week for his farewell tour of the base that was the foundation on which both his career and his personal life were built.

100 YEARS AGO June 25, 1912 IMBODEN — A.H. Hatley, an octogenarian of Maynard, Randolph county, is cutting another set of teeth at his advanced age. About six years ago he had the remaining decayed snags extracted, and recently symptoms that reminded him of teeth-cutting of childhood days appeared, followed almost immediately by new teeth in the place of those extracted.

For hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth living in the United States, President Barack Obama’s recent Department of Homeland Security memo halting their deportations has provided a tremendous sense of relief.

Opportunity only knocks once. Repeated attempts to ratify or re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) first submitted to the states in 1972 have failed again and again, and even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared the ERA officially dead, some people just won’t let it rest in peace.

Konner Wade threw his third consecutive complete game, Robert Refsnyder homered for the second game in a row and Arizona beat two-time defending national champion South Carolina 5-1 in the opener of the College World Series finals Sunday night.

MOTOR SPORTS Alonso wins F1 European GP Fernando Alonso of Ferrari won an incident-filled European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain on Sunday to become the first driver to win two races this season, while Michael Schumacher earned a first podium finish since his return from a two year retirement in 2010, coming in third.

A record-breaking mission to the International Space Station has triggered another space race back on Earth, with Florida competing against Texas and Puerto Rico for the chance to land a new launchpad for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, and its ambitious line of Falcon rockets.

China is defending its export curbs on rare earth minerals used in high-tech products as an environmental measure and rejected a World Trade Organization challenge by the United States, Europe and Japan.

With “DirectConnect 911,” a smart phone can tell when your house is on fire and call 911. It works even if you’re in Timbuktu and can’t make it back. (Or maybe you live in Timbuktu.) It’s a combination smartphone app and hardware that detects smoke.

You can do anything on the computer with the right program. Mobile applications, known as apps, are making that true for smart phones and tablet computers as well. This week, we’ll take a look at four new apps designed to perform a variety of tasks.

U.S. supercomputer named fastest SAN JOSE, Calif. — Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops, a supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been named the world’s fastest computing system. A petaflop is computer-speak for a quadrillion calculations per second.

Editor’s note: Once again writer Bobby Ampezzan will spend his summer tackling a new-to-him and overwhelmingly difficult fitness activity. This time it’s bouldering. Here is the first in a series of every-other-week reports.

Push-ups are one of the best exercises for strengthening the upper body. They are also one of the most convenient because they can be performed almost anywhere, take little time, require no equipment and work many muscles.

Happy birthday. You’ll have a strong sense of purpose. You’ll live where you fit in, and you’ll enjoy your lifestyle. July brings a chance to help your loved ones, and you’ll make a remarkable difference.

DEAR READERS: Organic food is more readily available now than before, but what exactly does “organic” mean? Here is some helpful information from the United States Department of Agriculture : If food has the “USDA Organic” seal, it means that it is certified organic and has met all of the standards necessary when inspected by a government approved certified inspector.

1. What is the name for the home constructed by a beaver? 2. What was the family name in the TV show Leave It to Beaver ? 3. Term for a person who is often excessively industrious or zealous. 4. Which state is the “Beaver State” ?

The Kenyan government is protesting a U.S. embassy travel advisory that warned of an imminent terror attack on the coastal town of Mombasa, saying the advisory amounts to "economic sabotage" in a city that is reliant on tourism.

Egypt’s election commission has declared Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt’s first free elections by a narrow margin over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

The House committee chairman leading the fight to get Justice Department documents about a troubled gun-tracking operation says there’s no evidence so far that White House officials were involved in misleading Congress or engaged in a cover-up.

Turkey’s president said Saturday that his country would do “whatever is necessary” in response to the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syria, adding a new complication to the tense relationship between the former allies split by Turkey’s support for Syrian rebels trying to overthrow the government.

With the Supreme Court set to render judgment on President Barack Obama’s health-care law as early as Monday, the White House and Congress find themselves in a position that many advocates of the legislation once considered almost unimaginable.

Archaeologists who found a 3,000-year-old gold ibex earring in the remains of the ancient Canaanite city identified with Armageddon expect that further discoveries will broaden historical insight about the site.

Why did The Avengers blow the roof off the box office, while Battleship sank to the bottom of the sea? Blame Internet chatter. The number of times a film is mentioned in blog posts and social media strongly reflects how much money it is pulling in at the box office, according to a new model developed by Japanese physicists.

As the Obama administration revamps its Asian strategy in response to a rising China, the U.S. military is looking at a return to some familiar bases from its last conflict in Southeast Asia — the Vietnam War.

A framed poster on the wall of a kindergarten classroom shows bright-eyed children brandishing rifles and bayonets as they attack a hapless American soldier, his face bandaged and blood spurting from his mouth.

Aerial surveillance video of a fatal shootout during a counter narcotics mission in Honduras last month shows a long, dugout-style boat ramming a smaller canoe carrying Honduran and U.S. agents — and a seized cocaine shipment — followed by a brief but furious round of gunfire.

President Vladimir Putin was all swagger last week at an annual economic forum, effectively wagging a finger at Europe over its fiscal problems and keeping the chief executives of some of the world’s most powerful oil companies waiting for hours in a hallway until he finally met with them.

Cambridge Industries, an automotive-plastics supplier whose losses had been building for three consecutive years, finally filed for bankruptcy in May 2000 under a mountain of debt that had ballooned to more than $300 million.

Egypt will release results from disputed presidential elections today, the country’s top elections commission official said — an announcement that will put an end to the country’s nervewracking uncertainty about who is the official winner, but promises no end to the power struggles among Islamists, the military and other factions.

Mix-ups, miscommunication and errors continued to surface in the Phillips County judicial system last week as authorities worked to clear up a docket of yearsold cases left languishing in circuit court because of unserved fugitive warrants.

Paraguay’s newly sworn-in president set about forming a new government Saturday as he promised to honor foreign commitments, respect private property and reach out to Latin American leaders to minimize diplomatic fallout and keep his country from becoming a regional pariah.

Greece’s new coalition government said Saturday that it will seek to repeal some taxes, halt layoffs and extend by two years the deadlines for tough austerity measures imposed under its international bailout agreement.

Arkansas’ players didn’t react much Friday night after Jake Wise swung at strike three from Matt Price to end the Razorbacks’ baseball season one victory short of the College World Series championship series.

Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers threatened to escalate fighting with Israel on Saturday after airstrikes killed several gunmen in the coastal territory, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel wounded one person and damaged an elementary school in the country’s south.

Politico, the website devoted to covering all facets of the political news cycle, said late Thursday that it had suspended one of its White House reporters for making numerous disparaging and vulgar comments about Mitt Romney.

The Republican Party of Arkansas elected 21 at large delegates Saturday to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention, all but one of whom had been recommended as delegates or alternates by the campaign of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Nearly a year after it started looking for a new director for the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, a state board hopes to have a candidate selected for the job by the fall, its chairman said Friday.

Ecuador’s Embassy in London said Saturday that Ambassador Anna Alban was traveling to her country’s capital to brief President Rafael Correa on the request for political asylum made by WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange.

EDITOR’S NOTE — Arabicspeaking journalist Ben Hubbard was part of a three-member Associated Press team that spent two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, gathering firsthand information on the increasingly bloody rebellion against President Bashar Assad — the longest and deadliest uprising of the Arab Spring.

Greg Burke, 52, the Fox News correspondent in Rome and a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement, will leave the network to become the senior communications adviser in the Vatican’s secretariat of state, officials said.

The story of how a group of private and public research scientists and University of Arkansas business students came together to develop an osteoporosis drug that promises to rebuild bone is like a famous marriage of confections.

Ben Affleck is managing to live a relatively private life in a Hollywood fishbowl. He’s no longer tailed daily by the paparazzi, as he was when he dated Jennifer Lopez from 2002-04. It was a time when entertainment coverage was starting to explode and the couple were on the cover of every magazine and tabloid, and the top story on TV entertainment shows. “I definitely was in a tabloid cross hair,” he said in a recent interview.

The agriculture teacher at Camden Fairview High School who was suspended from his job and arrested in May over accusations of having a sexual relationship with one of his students is now formally charged in the case.

A man found unconscious in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ therapy pool was pronounced dead Thursday, not long after members of a water aerobics class spotted him at the bottom of the pool.

Penny is our pet of the week. She is a 6-month-old black Labrador/pointer mix with a cute patch of speckled fur on her chest. Penny is shy, but warmed up quickly to her foster parents. She weighs about 20 pounds and may gain another 10 as she grows, but will not be a large dog. Penny’s ideal home would be one where she can be close to her family most of the time. She is very loving, and, with some training and confidence, she will blossom.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I don’t carry around a backpack [filled] with American flags and run around the world planting them.” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explaining that U.S. officials are looking for permission to operate from old installations in Asia as guests, mostly on a temporary basis Article, this page

QUOTE OF THE DAY “It is not possible to cover over a thing like this.Whatever is necessary will no doubt be done.” Turkish President Abdullah Gul, in response to the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syria Article 1A

2 district unions ask Beebe for help The employee unions in the Pulaski County Special School District sent Gov. Mike Beebe last week a petition asking him to help them regain collective bargaining rights and preserve their union-negotiated contracts.

100 YEARS AGO June 24, 1912 MEMPHIS — There is a prospect that Memphians may get to see the battleship Arkansas this summer. The people of Helena have asked the Navy Department to send the dreadnought there some time in July so that the people of Arkansas can present her with a silver service.

The state Committee on Professional Conduct cautioned Paul Schmidt, an attorney from Cabot, for representing a child’s mother several years after another attorney in his firm had represented the child’s father in a paternity and custody dispute.

During the past year, some 400 workers at a shipyard on Seattle’s Harbor Island have been installing new diesel engines, welding bulkheads, painting and tackling other tasks to prepare the Kulluk, a Shell Oil rig, for drilling holes this summer in the sea bottom off Alaska’s North Slope.

While the humble burger reigns as an iconic American food, a growing number of foodies are searching for something a little more special: Sandwiches made with fresh Angus beef, a better-quality roll and toppings such as aged cheddar or homemade pickles.

The night in March before Berkeley, Calif.-based Annie’s Homegrown began trading its stock for the first time, Chief Executive Officer John Foraker saw something that told him the natural foods company he heads had really arrived.

Accusations of wine fraud, which have been swirling around the international trade in rare vintages, have now struck home at the source of some of the world’s most prized bottles, the cellars of Burgundy.

Mexico’s consumer prices rose more than expected in early June, pushing annual inflation above the central bank’s target range even as signs of slower U.S. growth threaten to dampen demand for exports.

On Thursday, the parents of Houston rookie starter Dallas Keuchel (Arkansas Razorbacks ) surprised him with news that they had found last-minute bargain airline tickets from Tulsa to see his next start.

An article in The New York Times recently examined the risks of artificial sweeteners. At first blush, it seems we are less likely to gain weight if we sweeten tea or coffee with an artificial, calorie-free sweetener. And today, far more dietbranded drinks are sold than their sugary counterparts. The price is the same, so why not?

Guests had their one and only chance to party in the new Stella Boyle Smith Atrium and the Charles “Boe” and Myrna V. Adams Rooftop Garden on June 14 in the new South Wing of Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

ENGAGEMENTS — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publishes engagement announcements without photographs. The announcement must be submitted at least eight weeks before the wedding and two weeks before you wish it to be in the paper. WEDDINGS — Wedding announcements, with or without photographs, must be submitted at least 10 days before the wedding. The announcement will be published the first Sunday after the wedding on a space-available basis.

Julienne and Richard Hall will celebrate their 71st wedding anniversary. The couple were married June 28, 1941. She is the former Julienne Dow. He is a civil engineer with Hall Surveying and Engineering. They are the parents of Jeanne Milazzo of Dallas and Rick Hall and Sue Ellen Hall, both of Texarkana. The couple have five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

In the tradition of the annual, celebrity-studded White Party given by rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, the second annual Fire Chief’s All White Affair — studded with local celebrities — was held June 16 in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock.

DEAR ABBY: I have set the guest list for my Fourth of July party. A few people I entertained last year will not be invited back this summer. Perhaps they’ll recognize themselves when they read the following list: (1) You arrived emptyhanded.

Q. I ordered a custommade suit today. The salesman is a huge fan of adjustable tabs on the waistband to avoid having a belt. He says they’re very European. I told him I’d consider it, but they just look ugly to me. Am I being provincial ?

Power forward Isaiah Watkins has an impressive list of schools trying to secure his basketball services and has approximately 40 scholarship offers, including one from Arkansas. Watkins, 6- 7, 220 pounds, of St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, N.J., said he is attracted to Arkansas because of the Hogs’ style of play, which he believes fits his talents. “I know they’re a run-andgun offense and up-tempo,” Watkins said.

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers said Saturday they tried to quit the night before his child sex abuse trial because they weren’t given enough time to prepare, raising an argument on the trial’s speed that could become the thrust of an appeal.

It used to be that short tracks were the guaranteed place for bumping, banging and blown tempers. It’s now shifted to road courses, specifically Sonoma, where more than a few drivers will likely be raging mad by the end of today’s race.

Nelson Piquet Jr. held the lead on a late restart, then pulled away from the rest of the field Saturday to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Road America. The Brazilian, a former Formula One driver and the son of a three-time F1 champion, became a winner in his third career Nationwide start after starting the race from pole position.

TENNIS Roddick, Paszek earn titles Andy Roddick’s confidence was boosted by winning the Eastbourne Championships on the eve of Wimbledon when he beat defending champion Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-2 in the final at Eastbourne, England on Saturday. Tamira Paszek of Austria fought off five match points to defeat fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 in the women’s final. Roddick entered the event as a wild card after losing his opening match at Queen’s Club last week, a defeat that stretched his losing streak to six matches dating to mid-March.

Starting pitcher Dallas Keuchel (Arkansas Razorbacks) made his major-league debut with the Houston Astros on June 17 at Texas. Keuchel allowed 1 run on 4 hits in 5 innings, earning a no-decision in the Astros’ 9-3 loss to the Rangers. The left-hander took Bud Norris’ spot in the Astros’ starting rotation after Norris was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained knee.

House subcommittee cuts NAWCA funding WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday approved a bill that appropriates $22.3 million for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA ), more than $13 million less than last fiscal year. “While we understand the spending constraints the House Appropriations Committee is operating under, we are disappointed with the spending level recommended for the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund in the subcommittee’s bill,” said Dale Hall, chief executive officer for Ducks Unlimited.

Tom Vanemburg of Desha expressed some concern recently that his age — 71 — might preclude him from achieving additional recognition in the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program. He need not have been concerned.

Faith Baptist Church in Cabot and Care Cap Connections will join forces from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday. This project, under the direction of founder Mary Philips, will introduce new volunteers to the Care Cap way of cutting, pinning, sewing and packaging comfortable kerchiefs for those who have gone through or are going through cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy. Teams are set up in a continuous production line, with one team beginning with the process and another completing it. This is strictly a volunteer project, and everyone is welcome to volunteer time. Those who don’t sew may cut, iron, pin, tag and package the caps or run an errand.

We all get them at one time or another: a legal-tender note that’s so beaten up we wonder if we’ll be able to get rid of the thing. Not only is it so crumpled that no self-respecting vending machine would take it, but it has been taped together after some ungodly amputation befell it. We hope we can find some individual or merchant to accept it. We’ve already got the argument ready: “Look, it’s not as if it’s a counterfeit bill. It’s a real bill with issues.” Luckily, I’ve never been given a dollar bill I couldn’t eventually pass. So I’d never given any thought to what I’d do if that were ever the case... nor had I given real thought to the eventual fate of money once, in general, it gets too outrageously raggedy to use.

The Fourth of July became a federal holiday in 1941, but Independence Day celebrations go back to the 18th century. The tradition continues this year with various celebrations around the Three Rivers area. According to the History.com website, in June 1776, representatives of the 13 colonies who were fighting in the revolutionary struggle weighed a resolution that would declare their independence from Great Britain. On July 2, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later, the delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence.

The first Bad Boy Kids Triathlon will take place the morning of July 14 at Lyon College. Kids will swim, bike and run to benefit the Ozark Foothills Literacy Project. The triathlon is open to kids ages 5-16 and will cost $20 per person.

The eighth annual T Tauri Movie Camp has nearly reached capacity. The camp offers summer digital filmmaking workshops in narrative filmmaking, claymation and on-camera acting for youth ages 8 to 18. The workshops run from two to four days in length and take place July 16-28 in Batesville.

DEAR CAROLYN: I have a bit of an open-ended question. When I’m unhappy, I tend to want to change everything — job, relationships, etc. — at once. It’s hard for me to decipher where I’m unhappy and what the best ways are to change things, rather than blow up my whole life. Are there ways to start to unpack all of this?

From autumn through spring, public schools, aided with federal and state funds, try to make sure no child goes hungry during the school day. However, that safety net often ends with the last day of school. In the Tri-Lakes region, the Central Arkansas Development Council attempts to serve in that role by providing hundreds of meals for children in three locations while school is out through the organization’s Summer Food Service Program.

Happy birthday. You learned right from wrong years ago, but your ability to live right has new and exciting repercussions this year. A personal improvement you make in July ripples through your life and out into the world.

With projects like the expansion and improvement on lower Military Road and with work about to begin on the Benton Event Center, the city’s civil leaders said their community needs a strong new identity to promote focused growth.

The Appian Way — Rome’s gateway to the East — was Europe’s first super highway and the wonder of its day. Built in 312 B.C., it connected Rome with Capua (near Naples), running in a straight line for much of the way. Eventually it stretched 400 miles to Brindisi, from where Roman ships sailed to Greece and Egypt.

Feecation (feecation.com) has mounted the latest online enticement to travelers: “Take a vacation from your fees” says the logo. Actually, what you get is more like a few hours off than a vacation, but the concept will interest many of you.

I’ve never been much of a believer in historical theories about the Indispensable Man. There may be some examples—Washington, Lincoln, Moses. . . but they are few. But the indispensable woman, I believe in.

Rapeseed plants in Sichuan Province flowered a month late in 2008. People did not think much of it. In those days, people still believed experts, and the experts said the delayed flowering season was normal. They also said the thousands of frogs suddenly jumping onto streets was normal.

Readers going through the cache of letters that were released last month from Osama bin Laden’s hideaway in Abbottabad, Pakistan, may have been taken aback by a reference—in the midst of discussions of tactics, regional politics and exchange rates for ransom money—to poetry.

“WHERE is your home?” the consular officer asked me. I was 13 years old. My parents and I had left Iran eight years earlier, at the onset of the 1979 revolution. Since then, they had bought a house and a business—a small roadside motel in California. I had gone to school and learned to speak English. Then, on a summer trip to visit my mother’s Iranian relatives in Germany, I made the mistake of calling America my home.

Fiction 1. KISS THE DEAD, by Laurell K. Hamilton. Investigating a teenager’s abduction, Anita Blake, vampire hunter, encounters a group of recently turned vampires. 2. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 3. CALICO JOE, by John Grisham. A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both their careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together.

Steve Warrick and his family have three goals in mind as they go about the day-to-day operation of their 220-acre farm and ranch near Lonsdale: To be good stewards of the land; To raise a safe and quality beef product for the consumer; and To give God the glory for everything.

IT DOESN’T TAKE long to get bored hearing the barkers at the Arkansas Lottery yell hurry, hurry, step right up. After listening to them trying to sell their latest ideas for taking the suckers, and watching them slap the poster behind them with a pointer again and again—this will cure what ails ya!—most of us just walk away to the next set of clowns. Even better, to somebody selling something that we need. How about a new set of tires instead? Or a bag full of groceries. You know, something worth the money, something you can use.

I recently attended a commemoration of the 100th birthday of the late Sid McMath, the post-World War II governor who dragged Arkansas into the 20th Century. As I waited for the program to begin, my mind wandered back to 1967 when I was a freshman at Henderson State and the former governor was the guest of honor at an ROTC event. Attired in his Marine Corps dress uniform, McMath made a striking impression.

What should have been a watershed moment in Egypt has instead turned into a sour reminder of how difficult it will be to overcome an authoritarian past. Before voting was completed, the nation’s generals staged what amounted to a military coup by announcing that they, not the new president, would control the prime minister, parliament, the national budget and matters of war and peace—all without civilian oversight or accountability.

The food-stamp program needs to go on a healthy diet. The government currently provides massive subsidies to companies that produce unhealthy foods, and then provides incentives for food-stamp recipients to put these same unhealthy foods in their grocery carts.

It was hot at the Veterans Park Community Center indoor pool in Cabot as Zumba instructor Kristy Stewart sat in front of a fan in an attempt to cool down. She had just finished teaching a 50-minute aqua Zumba class.

(This column represents on-air summaries for the week of June 18-22.) The Bold and the Beautiful: Bill gave the clueless Liam one last chance to abandon his plan to marry Hope before Bill put his plan into action. Hope was devastated by an unexpected visitor, and when she didn’t show up at the church, Liam surmised he had been jilted. Kate overheard Marcus and Dayzee talking about Bill’s plans to sabotage the wedding and grilled Marcus for details as Hope desperately tried to make her wedding. She got to the church too late, however, since Liam had returned to the hotel, where he found a note that made him believe Hope had gotten cold feet.

UPCOMING Fireworks Extravaganza HEBER SPRINGS — The Heber Springs Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a celebration of America’s independence beginning at 6 p.m. July 3 on the shores of Sandy Beach at Greers Ferry Lake. Reading Ezra will play Christian music at 6 p.m., and Highway 101 will perform at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks above the lake will begin at 9:30 p.m. For more information, contact Melisa Gardner at (501) 362-2444 or director@heber-springs.com. TODAY Peter Pan

The Conway Community Arts Association and the Lantern Theatre will hold auditions for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Lantern Theatre, 1021 Van Ronkle St. in downtown Conway.

Two people have been found dead in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide at the Beverly Hilton, just hours before the Daytime Emmy Awards are being held at the posh hotel, police said Saturday.

The dominant figure in a Virginia Senate race that could determine the direction of Congress is President Barack Obama — even though both candidates for the seat are former governors well-known to voters.

Gaza's militant Hamas rulers threatened to escalate fighting with Israel on Saturday after airstrikes killed several gunmen in the coastal territory, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel wounded one person and damaged an elementary school in the country's south.

With tens of thousands of protesters rallying to support him, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate for president called on the Egyptian authorities Friday to release the results of last weekend’s election as soon as possible and warned against trying to manipulate the “popular will.”

A week after unveiling a new immigration policy, President Barack Obama made a direct appeal to a large conference of Hispanics on Friday, facing a constituency with the potential to be crucial to his re-election campaign.

The U.S. government seized a rare dinosaur skeleton Friday in what observers for the Mongolian government and a dinosaur expert called an important step toward returning the skeleton to its home in Mongolia.

Monsignor William Lynn, a former cardinal’s aide, was found guilty Friday of endangering children, becoming the first senior official of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision.

Thousands of students can continue to attend schools outside their home school districts under the Arkansas Public School Choice Act of 1989 after a federal judge Friday temporarily suspended a June 8 order that declared the law unconstitutional.

Congressional bargainers seem near an agreement that would avert a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal loans to 7.4 million college students and end an election-year battle between President Barack Obama and Congress, Senate aides from both parties said Friday.

The state Supreme Court on Friday struck down as unconstitutional Arkansas’ lethal-injection law, saying it gave too much discretion to the Arkansas Department of Correction to decide how executions would be carried out and which chemicals would be used.

The attorney defending a Saudi man accused of gathering bomb components at his Texas apartment in an unfulfilled plot to attack targets in the U.S. called his client a failure who never presented a true threat.

Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries such as China and India.

Less than a week after Conway lawyer Joe Don Winningham agreed to help Faulkner County with civil legal matters at no charge, he resigned Friday in a letter that cited a potential conflict of interest and spoke of “the ‘silliness’ of the County politics.” County Judge Preston Scroggin contracted again with David Hogue — another Conway lawyer who, like Winningham, is a former deputy prosecutor — for civil legal assistance on an interim basis.

Although the defendant is paralyzed from the chest down and relies on a wheelchair as well as human assistance several times a day, a federal judge ordered a Benton man to jail Friday for “blatantly flouting” an earlier order that permitted him to remain free, albeit on home detention, until his January trial.

The Arkansas Lottery Commission voted without objection Friday to hire a new internal auditor, filling the position left by an auditor who questioned the validity of one of the lottery’s largest contracts.

The state Board of Corrections on Friday approved spending $3.7 million to move its workrelease center in Springdale into a bigger building and to provide space for manufacturing and skills-training programs for inmates at the East Arkansas Regional Unit near Brickeys.

The Pakistani Parliament on Friday elected Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, a former Cabinet minister, as prime minister, offering a brief respite from a wider confrontation between the government and judiciary that many say is pushing Pakistan toward an early general election.

Paraguay’s Senate removed President Fernando Lugo from office in a rapid impeachment trial Friday, and the leftist former priest said he was stepping aside even though he considered his ouster a blow to democracy.

O Prolific Communicator: Only today my wife and I saw a small poodle in a vehicle outside a grocery. Though the windows were cracked, the wee canine was in obvious distress. Store employees were unconcerned; the dog’s owners showed up shortly after. If one sees a similar incident, what should be done? Please refresh our memories about the penalties for such abuse. — Sam.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Some of the guests jumped from the window into the hotel yard.They were hiding under trees or any safe place they could find.Three of the guests jumped into the lake and hid in the water.” Mohammad Zahir, criminal-investigation director for Kabul police, on a Taliban attack on a lakeside hotel near the Afghan capital Article, this page

QUOTE OF THE DAY “This monumental case will change the way business is done in many institutions. People will not shield predators any longer.” Seth Williams, the Philadelphia district attorney, on the conviction of Monsignor William Lynn of covering up child-sexual abuses by priests under his supervision Article, this page

Ann Curry showed up again for work at NBC’s Today show Friday as the network maintained its silence on reports that she’s about to be replaced. Curry was in her familiar co-host role with Matt Lauer on Friday, helping introduce musician Kenny Chesney for a performance outside the show’s Rockefeller Center studio.

David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values who testified in favor of California’s gay-marriage ban during a trial on the measure’s constitutionality, said in an opinion piece in The New York Times that he now thinks “that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over,” adding that years of opposing same-sex unions had done nothing to strengthen the institution of marriage among heterosexuals.

Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that shattered the Happy Valley image of Penn State football and led to the firing of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno.

Meeting announcements published exclusively on Arkansas Online, the newspaper’s website, can be found at www.arkansasonline.com/tools/ meetings/. An electronic form is available on the website to submit support group meeting announcements or changes. Readers can access that form by going to www.arkansasonline.com/contact/ supportgroupform/ and submitting the appropriate information.

100 YEARS AGO June 23, 1912 Secretary George R. Brown of the Board of Trade stated yesterday that he had received a letter from one of the citizens of Little Rock urging that in the interest of a “sane” Fourth of July that the Boy Scouts of Arkansas be invited to Little Rock for a celebration. Mr. Brown referred the communication to the Entertainment Fund Committee.

With the holy city of Jerusalem visible in the background, a man and woman standing side by side lead prayers for about 50 congregants who have come to welcome the Sabbath in this suburb’s Reform synagogue.

A look at how athletes with Arkansas ties fared at the U.S. Olympic trials: FRIDAY’S RESULTS MEN KEVIN LAZAS (UA) Is ninth in the decathlon with 3,972 points through five events going into today’s final day of competition.

Australia court halts school-chaplain pay CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s highest court said Wednesday that the government exceeded its constitutional powers by paying for chaplains to run programs in public schools.

CARDINALS Jay, Matt Carpenter activated KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The St. Louis Cardinals are finally starting to get healthy. Outfielder Jon Jay and first baseman Matt Carpenter were activated from the disabled list before Friday night’s game at Kansas City, while right-hander Chris Carpenter threw to batters for the first time since March 18, when he was sidelined because of a nerve condition in his shoulder.

Colorful tattoos cover almost every inch of Trevor Sarver’s arms. Even the tops of his hands, his knuckles and palms are tattooed, not to mention his entire torso. His left arm is emblazoned with a design featuring the words “Rock ’n’ Roll,” but a closer look reveals that many of Sarver’s tattoos have a religious message.

Felipe Paulino tore a ligament in his right elbow and likely will become the fourth Royals pitcher to have elbow ligament replacement surgery this season, tempering the positive news that catcher Salvador Perez is finally coming off the disabled list.

MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT First Baptist Church, 6501 S. Hazel St., Pine Bluff, will present the Pine Bluff Coterie and Community Band during a patriotic music event, I Love This Land, at 7:30 p.m. July 2. (870) 543-0198.

BELIEVE IT or not, there are still some schools that allow the kids to walk off campus when lunchtime rolls around. Which might have made perfect sense in a long-ago past before kids’ lunch boxes came into vogue. Or before canning. Or before fire was tamed. But come on, in 2012?

“With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations [of immigrants brought here illegally as children] through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed.” —President Barack Obama, March 28, 2011 WASHINGTON—Those laws remain on the books. They have not changed.

For those who don’t tweet, or twitter, or twit, or tweeze, or whatever it’s called, you might not have heard the news. We wouldn’t if it hadn’t made news. And being in the news business, we read all about it: Twitter went down Thursday for a few hours.

FOOTBALL NFL union wants new probe NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith on Friday called for the NFL to scrap the results of a months-long investigation into the New Orleans Saints’ alleged bounty program.

Under a proposed change in federal food-safety rules, up to 175 chicken carcasses a minute would whiz by a single government inspector as he attempted to check them for signs of contamination or other problems. Talk about poultry in motion.

Sports Illustrated columnist Jeff Pearlman succinctly described on Tuesday what federal prosecutors should have known before they ever charged former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens with lying to Congress.

SOFTBALL Golden Suns name coach Arkansas Tech named Kristina McSweeney its softball coach Friday. McSweeney spent the past four seasons at Seminole State College, a junior college in Sanford, Fla. McSweeney led the Trojans to top-five finishes in the NJCAA national tournament in 2009 and 2010 and was 174-66 from 2009-2012.

Industrial kitchens are all the rage. Just look at the number of stainless-steel refrigerators, dishwashers and stoves on the market today. So it makes sense that another industrial material — concrete — would also be on the rise.

Dear Otus, We sat horrified during the recent “Blood Suckers of Arkansas” talk at Hobbs State Park. The expert predicted an apocalyptic infestation of ticks the likes of which hasn’t been seen since biblical times.

An apple infamously did the trick for Adam and Eve, but for Willi Galloway, it was the seedpod of a forgotten radish that opened her eyes. It was that crunchy, spicy pod, tossed back as an impromptu snack, that changed the Portland, Ore.-based writer and editor’s perspective on kitchen gardening.

Concerns over the fragile global economy have triggered a 17-cent drop in gasoline prices in Arkansas in the past month and speculation by some analysts that national average prices could tumble below $3 a gallon this summer for regular grade fuel.

Concrete isn’t the only industrial material being reworked for residential use. Recycled steel is the material of choice for Gravette based Dream Fab LLC. The company produces Impervicote countertops, a proprietary manufacturing process that combines 14-gauge steel and a powder coating into a surface that’s impervious to heat, acidic foods and the elements.

Library changes good I’d like to address concerns about recent renovations at Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus. Students have repeatedly chosen Mullins Library as the best place to study on campus in Arkansas Traveler polls.

Darden Restaurants Inc. is struggling to revive sales at its Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants. A key sales figure fell at the chains during the latest quarter, and the company issued a profit forecast that fell short of Wall Street expectations.

Q I have a lot behind my home that is being taken over by English ivy. It is taking over my fence and trees just beyond my backyard. Is there anything that will kill this stuff? I keep pulling it and cutting it off my fence — which is a never-ending battle.

For nearly 11 months, they picketed in sub-zero temperatures, marched on company headquarters, prayed with religious leaders and traveled 200 miles on a hay wagon. Now, the locked-out union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. will decide whether they’re tired of walking and talking.

I read, with interest, your May 19 installment of Ask the Expert. I have the opposite problem with my bedroom door — it will not catch the strike plate. Looking at the strike plate and the plunger as they connect, it appears the door latch is lower than the hole in the strike plate. For an aging baby boomer, the prospect of using a chisel and hammer to raise the strike plate is a daunting task, to say the least. Do you have any suggestions on the easier way to adjust the door closure?

The stock market bounced back Friday, a day after suffering its second-worst loss this year. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other big lenders posted solid gains even though many of them had their credit ratings cut Thursday.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Banks are going to figure out a way to extract revenue from the customer in any way, shape or form.” Stanley J.G. Crouch, chief investment officer at money manager Aegis Capital Article, 1D

DEAR TOM AND RAY: My son is driving a 2001 Chrysler Concorde, and it’s now on its last leg. He drives fast — he just got a speeding ticket for going 96 mph! He goes to college out of state, and it’s a long, boring drive home; that’s the excuse I got for the ticket.

Happy birthday. You’ll find security and a sense of joy as you spend time on home and hearth in the next three weeks. Your improvements have long-term effects. You’ll like how a relationship evolves through August. November brings your chance to go for a position that rarely opens up.

DEAR READERS: The column about hints from older family members inspired a mountain of mail, and here are some of the best: Susan writes: “One hint that has stuck with me through the years was to lay my clothes out the night before; that way, I am not rushed or wasting time in the morning.”

1. Space and everything that exists in it 2. Seventh planet from the sun 3. Constellation also known as the Great Bear 4. An element used for nuclear fuels and weapons 5. A sore commonly found in the stomach, where it is called peptic

Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno.

The military is dealing with an increasing number of suicides, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says commanding officers must make clear that seeking help for the stresses of war is a sign of strength, not weakness.

A plan for European Union countries to tax financial transactions and use the proceeds to fund future bank bailouts ran aground on Friday, with just nine out of 27 countries ready to support it, raising the prospect the tax will be implemented in the end only by a subset of EU countries.

Taliban insurgents stormed into a lakeside hotel north of Kabul and opened fire on guests inside, killing 18 people — most civilians — before the 12-hour long rampage ended Friday morning, Afghan officials said.

Taliban insurgents stormed into a lakeside hotel north of Kabul and opened fire on guests inside, killing 18 people — most civilians — before the 12-hour long rampage ended Friday morning, Afghan officials said.

A Hempstead County man arrested this week after police uncovered marijuana plants growing on his property told investigators he was addicted to the drug and wanted to grow it himself to avoid giving business to "Mexican cartels," authorities said.

A video of four seventh-grade boys mercilessly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor in New York state that went viral has turned the victim into an international fundraising juggernaut and opened her tormentors to an onslaught of threats and abuse.

Mitt Romney told Hispanic elected officials Thursday that President Barack Obama takes their votes for granted and has failed to lead on immigration issues, while offering few details on his own plan other than pledging a “longterm solution” to replace a temporary Obama measure.

The three residential sites under consideration for the Little Rock Technology Park will be “taken off the table,” according to a letter from Mary Good, the chairman of the Technology Park Authority board.

The lower house of Paraguay’s opposition-controlled Congress voted Thursday to impeach leftist President Fernando Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers, adding to the South American nation’s political turmoil and prompting frightened residents of the capital to shutter businesses and pull children from school.

House Speaker John Boehner demanded Thursday that the Obama administration give in and turn over documents related to a botched guntracking operation, insisting that’s the only way to stop a House vote to hold the attorney general in contempt.

The Supreme Court declined Thursday to address whether the government still has the authority to regulate indecency on broadcast television but excused two broadcasters from potential fines for several past violations of rules against cursing and nudity.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “This bill represents significant reform. It cuts subsidies, it cuts the deficit, and it creates jobs.” Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, on the farm bill that passed the Senate Article, 1A Heat breaks records in Northeast BOSTON — Record-breaking heat scorched sections of the Northeast for the second-straight day Thursday.

In other Supreme Court decisions Thursday, the justices: Ruled in a 5-4 decision that people who committed crackcocaine crimes before more lenient penalties took effect and received their prison sentences afterward should benefit from the new rules. The court resolved a dispute in favor of Corey Hill and Edward Dorsey, who were arrested in 2007 and 2008 for selling crack cocaine, but weren’t sentenced until after the Fair Sentencing Act went into effect in August 2010. That law reduces the difference between sentences for crimes committed by crack-cocaine and powder-cocaine users.

The battle between Pakistan’s judiciary and government took a fresh twist Thursday when a court issued an arrest warrant for a close ally of President Asif Ali Zardari, effectively blocking his nomination as the country’s next prime minister.

Main components of the Senate’s five-year farm and food bill: The bill spends nearly $500 billion over its five-year life, or nearly $969 billion over 10 years. About 80 percent of the spending goes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. The bill would cut $23 billion from current spending levels, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.

A boat carrying about 200 people capsized south of Indonesia, and scores were feared drowned Thursday in an apparent attempt to reach Australia to seek asylum. Indonesian and Australian navies launched efforts to rescue survivors.

Two Hollywood unions are scrutinizing worker safety and welfare on Lindsay Lohan’s TV movie Liz &amp; Dick after the actress posted on Twitter that she was exhausted because of long production days. Larry Thompson, producer of the Lifetime movie starring Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor, said Wednesday that no violations were found Tuesday when a representative from the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists visited the set. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists confirmed that its representatives visited the production. It said it “will continue to visit” to enforce guild rules. The stage employees union also said it’s keeping a watchful eye on the production’s working conditions. Lohan was treated last week by paramedics for exhaustion and dehydration.

The pilot of a warplane who had been reported missing by Syrian air force authorities during a training mission Thursday flew to neighboring Jordan where he sought and was granted asylum, and Syria denounced him as a traitor.

Debbe Ebben, 24, a beauty queen who shaved her head in March to raise more than $4,000 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which donates money for childhood-cancer research, has been crowned Miss Alaska and said she likely will keep her hair short when she represents the state at the Miss America pageant in January.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “This signals the erosion of the regime’s capacity to use all its forces, the idea of sending planes is no longer an option, neither against an internal or an external enemy.” Retired Lebanese Gen. Elias Hanna, an expert on Syria military capabilities, on the defection of a Syrian air force officer who landed his warplane in Jordan

The Senate on Thursday approved a farm bill that would cost nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years, financing dozens of price-support and crop-insurance programs for farmers and food assistance for low-income families.

Norwegian prosecutors said Thursday that doubts about Anders Behring Breivik’s mental state mean he should be sent to a psychiatric institution instead of prison for the deaths of 77 people in a July 22 bomb and shooting rampage.

The state is closing the Little Rock Veterans Home, which has been under scrutiny since May for collecting about $600,000 in illegal fees from 18 of its most disabled residents, for missing inventory and for years of lax oversight.

Just 10 days before the start of the new fiscal year, California Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic controlled Legislature reached a budget deal Thursday to close a nearly $16 billion budget gap. The agreement came after days of negotiations, with legislative leaders reluctant to make the cuts that Brown said were urgently needed.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez have refused to defend the state’s law defining marriage as between a man and a woman, saying it violates the state constitution’s equal-protection clause.

Despite the passage of a corrections overhaul bill and a falling prison inmate population, state funding for the Department of Correction would increase by more than $25 million in the state fiscal year that begins July 2013 under a proposal presented Thursday to the state Board of Corrections.

The prosecuting attorney for the 21st Judicial District said Thursday that he and his staff need to be as physically fit as any other law enforcement officer and he doesn’t plan on reimbursing the state for years of private gym memberships paid for with public funds.

The North Little Rock School Board approved a two-story floor plan for new elementary schools Thursday at a meeting in which it also took an early step toward issuing more than $200 million in construction bonds.

A law enforcement officer who arrested someone for driving under the influence and then transported him across a county line for a breath test acted reasonably, and the test did not constitute an illegal search, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Little Rock and North Little Rock police, and the Pulaski County sheriff’s offi ce will use radar to detect speeding at these locations. Police and sheriff’s deputies may conduct radar checks in other locations as well. Little Rock: Napa Valley Drive North Little Rock: North Hills Boulevard Pulaski County: Kanis Road

Ex-Giant’s departure still stinks A couple of weeks ago, Joseph Armento mailed $3.36 to New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs in a gesture to keep the veteran with the 6-yearold fan’s favorite team.

BASEBALL Peralta suspended, appeals Tampa Bay reliever Joel Peralta was suspended for eight games by Major League Baseball on Thursday for having pine tar on his glove. Peralta has appealed, and can continue to play until the process is completed. Peralta was ejected from Tuesday night’s game in Washington after umpires found pine tar on his mitt.

The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions Thursday. The court’s ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions, can be found on the Internet at courts.state.ar.us. PROCEEDINGS OF JUNE 21, 2012 JUSTICE DONALD L. CORBIN CR11-1209. Brian T. Jordan v. State, from Benton Circuit. Affirmed. 11-1092. In the matter of the guardianship of A.M., a minor; Brittany Mahavier v. Teresa Mahavier, from Benton Circuit. Reversed and remanded. JUSTICE ROBERT L. BROWN 12-345. In Re Petition for Readmission of Harold Wayne Madden to the Arkansas Bar, an original action.

Jerry Sandusky was either a “predatory pedophile” who lured young boys to Penn State with gifts and access to big-time football, or a victim of now-grown men who lied to get a payout, attorneys argued Thursday as the former coach’s child sex abuse case went to a jury.

The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate. We correct all errors of fact. If you know of an error, write: Frank Fellone Deputy Editor P.O. Box 2221 Little Rock, Ark. 72203 or call 378-3475 during business hours Monday through Friday.

100 YEARS AGO June 22, 1912 Oliver Crisp, the 10-yearold son of Isaac Crisp, 1200 West Markham street, was run down by an automobile about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon at Third and Louisiana streets. The lad was thrown to the street by the machine, which was driven by Leo Schwartz, but aside from a few bruises apparently was not injured. When asked if he wanted to be taken home, he said he preferred to remain downtown to sell papers.

THE EDUCATION reporters and editors over on the other side of our always busy newsroom have been in what the military calls a Target Rich Environment for a week. A bombshell of a court ruling on desegregation that could have national implications, a whole new way to evaluate the state’s teachers is in the works, the state’s throwing out superintendents in failing school districts. . . . Let’s just note that the state’s Board of Education met on a Sunday last week. Somebody put on another pot of coffee.

If Mitt Romney wins the presidential election this fall, he’ll have Harry Reid partly to thank. The Republican presidential nominee and the Senate Democratic leader don’t have much in common politically. But they’re both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—that is, they’re both Mormons.

1925 The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 24-6 with Kiki Cuyler and Pie Traynor each hitting a grand slam and Max Carey getting two hits in the first and eighth innings. 1930 Lou Gehrig hit three home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a 20-13 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics in the second game of a doubleheader. Babe Ruth, who hit three home runs in the nightcap the previous day, hit two homers in the opener and one in the nightcap for the Yankees. Ruth tied major league records for five home runs in two games and six home runs in three games. 1944 Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves threw a five-inning 7-0 no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies. 1947 Cincinnati’s Ewell Blackwell almost duplicated Johnny Vander Meer’s double no-hit record by following up his June 18 outing over Boston. Brooklyn’s Eddie Stanky singled with one out in the ninth to end Blackwell’s bid. Blackwell ended up with a 4-0 two-hitter. 1962 Baltimore Orioles first baseman Boog

It is the time of year to dish out advice to graduates. Here is mine. Some time in your life, live outside the United States. Not only will you be in another world, you will more clearly see the world you came from, and who you are.

Leaders of the U.S. Senate chickened out this week. Yielding to paranoia from beef and pork producers, they nixed a bipartisan amendment that would lead to more humane treatment for the hens that produce most of the eggs consumed by Americans.

Apart from his fame, Rodney King, whose life ended last Sunday when he was found in the bottom of his swimming pool, was one of untold millions that have struggled with the oft-unshakable demons of alcoholism.

UA athletics budget goes up 8.8 percent The University of Arkansas athletic department is projecting revenues of $75.6 million for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, according to figures obtained Thursday by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Sandra Changkija birdied six of her final eight holes for a career-best 8-under-par 63 and a three-stroke lead Thursday during the suspended first round of the inaugural Manulife Financial LPGA Classic. Play was suspended at 4:20 p.m. because of the threat of lightning in the area, and called off for the rest of the day at 6:30 p.m.

Contrary to what commoners might believe, being a princess has a formidable collection of downsides to go with all those flashy crown jewels. Even in animated fairy tales, the job can be as confining as it is cushy.

Bel Ami 82 Cast: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, Phillip Glenister Directors: Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod Rating: R, for strong sexuality, nudity and brief language Running time: 102 minutes I confess I don’t really know whether Robert Pattinson can actually act — his work in the Twilight series seems appropriately negligible and he failed to register in Water for Elephants, but the word from Cannes was good on his central performance in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. The jury is still out on whether he’ll ever be sprung from the gilded prison of the neurasthenic vampire Edward Cullen.

The sun was just about to set over Lake Pontchartrain on a humid Louisiana day in May when Abraham Lincoln was summoned into action in a grassy field to wrestle to the hard, unforgiving ground the murderous nemesis who took the life of his mother years earlier.

DEAR REV. GRAHAM: How can I know if it’s time for me to change churches? The one I’ve been going to for the last few years doesn’t have any community service projects that I can get involved in, which is something I’d really like to do now that I’m retired. — L.F. DEAR L.F.: I’m grateful you want to help others in your community; far too many people assume their usefulness is over once they retire. But it doesn’t need to be that way; some of God’s choicest servants made their greatest impact later in life. Moses (for example) was 80 when God called him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

Happy birthday. It’s a fulfilling year. You sense that by leading just one person to be more loving you make a remarkable difference in the world, but you find it impossible to stop there. Many will experience your kind heart. A change in your living arrangement makes life easier in September. You’ll join a new team in October. Gemini and Taurus people adore you.

At area theaters 70 AMERICAN REUNION, R Those madcap American Pie characters return to East Great Falls for their 10-year high-school reunion to reminisce and get reinspired. (113 minutes) 89 THE AVENGERS, PG-13 The title superheroes of all those preceding Marvel-based, big-screen comic book adventures, including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America: The First Avenger (Chris Evans),

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the euro is under “acute stress” and urged leaders to consider measures including jointly issuing debt to alleviate the pressure on the eurozone’s debt-stricken members.

DEAR READERS: In a recent column, a reader named Sylvia wrote about a problem she was having with her bath towels looking as if someone had spilled bleach on them. Well, you had a lot to say on the issue: 1. “I found out that the culprit for my towel spotting was the new whitening toothpastes people are buying to whiten their teeth,” said Sally, via e-mail.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “After a fairly substantial period of constantly lower [joblessness] claims, a new, more unwelcome trend higher has taken hold.A meaningful pickup in monthly job additions looks unlikely.” Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at BTIG LLC Article, 1D 30-year rate an all-time low again WASHINGTON — The average U.S. rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell this week to a record low for the seventh time in eight weeks. Cheap mortgages have helped drive a modest recovery in the weak housing market this year.

Dairy Queen’s chief executive said Thursday that customers should have a variety of menu choices as the fast-food chain enters New York City, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pressing for restrictions on the size of soft drinks sold at restaurants.

Thursday, June 21

Freshman Jordan Montgomery and Matt Price combined on a three-hitter Thursday night, lifting two-time defending national champion South Carolina to a 2-0 victory over Arkansas at the College World Series.

The jury has been selected for the trial of a Saudi man accused of gathering bomb components with the intention of targeting sites across the United States, including the home of former President George W. Bush.

In this week’s MovieStyle, our critic Dan Lybarger takes a look at Brave, the lastest computer animation extravaganza from Pixar, and finds that its technical virtues outshine the its rather ordinary story but concludes that “Pixar’s disappointments are still more captivating than most studios’ masterpieces.”

A newly released video shows Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman at the scene of Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting a day later giving police a blow-by-blow account of his fight with the teen.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had three of the 51 child sex-abuse charges against him dismissed Thursday before attorneys began closing arguments in the high-profile case that led to the firing of longtime head coach Joe Paterno.

House Republican officials say they're willing to negotiate an end to a potential constitutional confrontation in a document dispute, but only if the Obama administration turns over more emails and memos related to the flawed "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking operation.

Republicans on the House oversight committee Wednesday voted to recommend holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in a dispute over internal Justice Department documents related to the botched guntrafficking operation called “Fast and Furious.”

The Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board voted Wednesday to move forward with existing siteselection plans, ignoring large portions of a Little Rock Board of Directors request to slow down and look at sites that “can be obtained without the objections of residents.”

Little Rock officials plan to use accumulating sales-tax revenue to build a community center and pool, rebuild an adult leisure center destroyed in a 2009 fire, build two fire stations and repave dozens of roads throughout the city.

Baptists who like the “Southern Baptist” message but not the “Southern Baptist” name should call themselves “Great Commission Baptists,” the nation’s largest Protestant body decided after vigorous debate.

Confusion about an overnight report that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was near death persisted Wednesday, as one of his lawyers disputed the account and said Mubarak had been moved to a hospital because of a head wound caused by a fall in a prison bathroom.

Saying her family “does not feel justice was served,” the mother of a University of Central Arkansas student who was killed in a driveby shooting on campus in 2008 urged a state board Wednesday to deny parole to two men who pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting.

State attorneys seeking $181 million in legal expenses from Johnson &amp; Johnson on top of a $1.2 billion fine must wait until an appeal is decided, which could take up to two years, or submit additional proof that they are entitled to the money, the New Jersey drugmaker claims.

A federal judge should allow all interdistrict transfers under the Arkansas School Choice Act, which he struck down this month, regardless of a student’s race or previous eligibility to switch schools under the law, attorneys said Wednesday.

U.S. Capitol visitors with an eye for art can view American masterpieces, such as John Trumbull’s Signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, that are lining the building’s dome. And for the next year, artwork by four young Arkansans will also hang in the Capitol.

Federal prosecutors say Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen should withdraw his sanctions against them since the federal judge whose findings formed the basis for the penalties has rescinded his decision to punish them.

A building at Fourth and Poplar streets in North Little Rock’s downtown has housed a church, offices and a business school, but what it’s most famous — or, more accurately, infamous — for is its wild times as the Checkmate Club.

The widow of a man who died in a hit-and-run accident while riding in a bicycle event last year told the state Board of Parole on Wednesday that the woman responsible should serve more time before she’s released from prison.

In this age of grade inflation and fame awarded to Kardashians, one hesitates to dub anything a once-in-alifetime event. But last night’s bluegrass concert by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers at Robinson Center Music Hall puts a severe test to that rule. The mixture of comedy and high-octane bluegrass music is certainly unique among touring acts. One couldn’t help but feel after the end of the two-hour show that this chance would never come again.

After the project is finished to make U.S. 412 a fourlane roadway from Springdale to Huntsville, Huntsville city and business leaders want travelers to have a reason to take a quick trip to the center of the Madison County city.

Arkansas State Police officials will turn their findings over to a prosecutor once they complete their investigation into the death of a Clay County man shot by a Corning police officer Tuesday evening.

French police stormed a bank and captured a gunman who took four bank employees hostage Wednesday while claiming he was acting for religious reasons. The six-hour standoff jarred a region still reeling from a terrorist shooting rampage that killed seven people earlier this year.

Mickey Bradley, an inspector with New Jersey’s Bergen County sheriff’s office, told The Record newspaper that he bought the Web address facecrook.net for $17 after coming up with the idea of the new Facecrook website, which features the names, photos and last locations of fugitives wanted by the department.

Little Rock and North Little Rock police, and the Pulaski County sheriff’s offi ce will use radar to detect speeding at these locations. Police and sheriff’s deputies may conduct radar checks in other locations as well. Little Rock: Western Hills Avenue North Little Rock: McCain Boulevard Pulaski County: Willow Springs Road

The official start of summer Wednesday delivered temperatures in the high 90s to the Eastern Seaboard, setting records in some spots and getting awfully close in others, with people wilting at graduation ceremonies, students trying to learn in sweltering classrooms and authorities warning folks to check on elderly neighbors.

The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate. We correct all errors of fact. If you know of an error, write: Frank Fellone Deputy Editor P.O. Box 2221 Little Rock, Ark. 72203 or call 378-3475 during business hours Monday through Friday.

Critic vital in elevation of movies NEW YORK — Andrew Sarris, a leading movie critic during a golden age for reviewers who popularized the French reverence for directors and inspired debate about countless films and filmmakers, died Wednesday. He was 83.

Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck northeastern Minnesota, inundating the city of Duluth, officials said Wednesday.

The following burglaries are from reports collected from the Little Rock and North Little Rock police departments. The names listed are of those who reported a burglary and the dates are when the crime is believed to have taken place. Cammack Village data are not included. Little Rock 72204 3316 W. 12th St., residence, Jin Lin, 7 p.m. June 9, property valued at $600.

100 YEARS AGO June 21, 1912 FORT SMITH — Sixteen years for committing a forgery that netted him less than $30 was the sentencing imposed upon F.L. Wright of Spiro, Okla., by Judge Hon in the Circuit Court here today. He was indicted four times, each indictment containing two counts. Wright pleaded guilty to all cases against him and received two years on each count. Wright passed four bogus checks.

The Senate voted Wednesday not to tamper with the Depression-era program that protects U.S. sugar growers as it sped toward completion of a $500 billion bill to operate farm and food programs over the next five years.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals released opinions Wednesday. The court’s ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions, can be found on the Internet at courts.state.ar.us. PROCEEDINGS OF JUNE 20, 2012 CHIEF JUDGE LARRY D. VAUGHT CACR10-1144. Joseph Scamardo Jr.

The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate. We correct all errors of fact. If you know of an error, write: Frank Fellone Deputy Editor P.O. Box 2221 Little Rock, Ark. 72203 or call 378-3475 during business hours Monday through Friday.

AT LAST conflicting reports, Hosni Mubarak was suspended somewhere between life and death, just as the Egyptian dictator’s last precarious year has been spent somewhere between justice and only political justice. Egypt itself still hangs somewhere between revolution and whatever comes afterward—probably more suspense, upheaval and uncertainty. Which will not end with Hosni Mubarak’s eventual departure from this vale of tears.

President Barack Obama’s latest political ploy—granting new “rights” out of thin air, by executive order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children—is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country’s long-run problems.

A small number of CIA officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, U.S. officials and Arab intelligence officers said.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I am not a doctor, but we have objective elements that allow us to think and affirm that we’re dealing with someone who suffers from considerable psychological problems and that his act is linked to these problems.” French Prosecutor Michel Valet, on the suspect in a hostage standoff Article, 2A

To the scene of the crime Cynthia Howell of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette recently wrote of Gov. Mike Beebe urging high school graduates of the class of 2012—some graduating with hopes to pursue pediatric oncology, aerospace engineering, foreign language translation and creative writing—to return to the state. Some must leave Arkansas and attend colleges and universities offering their degrees; many certainly do not return.

The operator of the Japanese nuclear plant devastated by last year’s tsunami issued a final report on the disaster Wednesday, outlining organizational and communication problems that have not yet been resolved.

A Russian court Wednesday convicted two professors of a St. Petersburg university of handing over missile secrets to China, the latest in a string of espionage cases that reflected underlying tensions between Moscow and Beijing despite declarations of cooperation and friendship.

A new study by Kantar Retail, part of a British research firm with offices around the world, found that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s supercenters offer the lowest prices on 36 national brand items when compared with prices in its online operation and with online-only competitor Amazon.com Inc.

HOT SPOTS 1. BUFFALO RIVER The river is low and getting lower, and the water temperature is averaging in the upper 70s. Warm-water streams and rivers have been fishing very well with anglers catching plenty of quality fish. Spotted bass are holding near woody debris. Smallmouth are in the deeper channels. Sunfish have been caught using about anything.

The Federal Reserve’s latest plan to help the economy failed to impress Wall Street on Wednesday. Stocks finished slightly lower for the day, and not much better than they were before the Fed announcement.

1 FLUTTER Downtown Paris and nearby Mount Magazine State Park are gearing up for a weekendlong salute to winged friends. The Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival, with walks, seminars, crafts and swarms of butterflies, will be Friday-Saturday. General admission is free. Call (479) 963-2244 or visit butterflyfestival.com. To the southeast, the folks in Malvern are getting ready for a festival of their own.

Some restaurants succeed because they offer truly one-of-a-kind fare. Stick around long enough and they’re called “institutions,” as in, “Jacques and Suzanne’s was a Little Rock institution.” The real trick in the restaurant business is to steer clear of one-ofa-kind food.

Hardly anyone was surprised when the Most Valuable Player award was announced with 2:00 left in the Arkansas High School Coaches Association All-Star girls basketball game Wednesday night at Walton Arena.

BASKETBALL Ariza, Okafor dealt to Wizards The New Orleans Hornets have traded forward Trevor Ariza and center Emeka Okafor to the Washington Wizards for forward Rashard Lewis and a secondround draft pick. The Wizards said Wednesday they are sending New Orleans the 46th pick in this year’s NBA Draft, which originally belonged to Dallas.

FOOTBALL Memphis QB Reed plans transfer to Hogs Former Memphis quarterback Taylor Reed plans to transfer to Arkansas and redshirt this season and be eligible for the 2013 season. Reed, 6-3, 215 pounds, 4.5 seconds in the 40-yard dash, asked for his release from the Tigers not long after going through spring practice. He signed with Memphis in 2011 out of El Dorado and started 9 of 11 games as a freshman, completing 169 of 295 passes for 1,690 yards and 10 touchdowns with 4 interceptions.

Happy birthday.You may not feel like you’re on a quest at the start of the year, but you’ll gather information, inspiration and team members in the next seven weeks. By mid-August, your mission is under way. A financial exchange keeps your project rolling and growing through September. December brings family fun. Aries and Aquarius people adore you.

DEAR REV. GRAHAM: By the time you get this I’ll be out of college, and I don’t have any idea what to do next. Maybe I just wasted the last four years. Do you believe God has a plan for everyone, or is it just up to us to decide what we’ll do with our lives? — D.B.

DEAR CAROLYN: I was thrown/hurt/confused recently when my boyfriend of two years told me he has never really been in love and isn’t sure what it’s supposed to feel like. He then tried to exempt me, but initially he said it as a blanket response to my asking why he never says, “I love you.” He has said it, but always when I’ve said it first. We’re 31 and 32.

Over the years I have perfected my banana bread recipe — one of my favorite solutions for using overripe bananas. I use all whole-grain flour or whole-grain flour mixed with white all-purpose flour, and rely as much as I can on the natural sweetness of the bananas to cut the total amount of granulated sugar called for in the recipe. I also like to roughly mash, or chop, my bananas so there are big chunks of fruit to bite into. I always throw in a handful of toasted chopped walnuts, and sometimes I’ll add a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg and some dark chocolate chips.

Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend: Oklahoma rockers Oklahoma-based rock band Hinder will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Timberwood Amphitheatre at Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, U.S. 70 (East Grand Avenue), Hot Springs, part of the park’s 2012 Pepsi Concert Series. Gates open at 6 p.m. Admission is included in what you pay to get into the park — $44.99, $29.99 per “junior” (under 48 inches tall) and “senior” (age 55 and up); for an extra $5 or $10 you can upgrade into reserved seating. Call (501) 624-0100 or visit MagicSprings.com.

The Arkansas Arts Center’s Artmobile, a 40 -foot mobile gallery containing original works of art from the Arts Center’s permanent collection, will be at the Searcy Art Gallery, 300 E. Race Ave., today and Friday. The hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. SATURDAY AARP Driver Safety Course

It’s no secret that Gov. Mike Beebe was raised in a single-parent household. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the White County Single Parent Scholarship Fund Inc. would honor his mother, Louise Beebe, for her accomplishments.

Some changes are going on at the Bald Knob Elementary School campus. Bald Knob schools will offer a tuition-based pre-kindergarten program for the 2012-13 school year. Some of the other grades will be moved, new buildings are going up, and others will be renovated.

Twenty-two miles from Searcy on Main Street in Georgetown, which has a population of around 129, sits an obscure little building. Inside is a catfish restaurant called Georgetown One Stop. It’s not an ordinary restaurant by any means.

Socca is easy to love, as I learned several summers ago when a friend made a big batch as an appetizer for a backyard party. The crispy-edged and pancake-thin slices have that sweet and nutty flavor of chickpeas, but they’re also a little smoky from some time under the broiler. Since the recipe is naturally gluten-free and vegan, it’s a winner for any dinner-party crowd.

Restaurant 1620, 1620 Market St., Little Rock, will mark its 25th anniversary by closing for two months (July and August), effective July 1, for major renovations, what General Manager Rick Qualls calls “a complete makeover of the restaurant from top to bottom.” Qualls also promises, when it reopens — target date is first week of September — that it will be “one of the finest restaurants ever imagined in west Little Rock... complete with a few surprises.”

The University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service will conduct a Rice Recipe Contest at noon July 9 in the White County Fair Office at the White County Fair Grounds in Searcy.

Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges. Restaurant reviewers’ visits are anonymous and all expenses are paid by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Bargain means a meal (without beverage or dessert) is typically less than $12. Moderate is $12 to $25. Expensive is $25 and up. To read recent restaurant reviews in their entirety, visit arkansasonline.

The Arkansas Craft School will offer classes during the first part of July, starting with a class for wood-turners — Native American-Style Baskets Turned on a Lathe on July 5-8. Instructor Jim Adkins creates turned wooden objects that, upon first glance, look to be authentic, traditional tribal baskets, but instead they are constructed from wood, using distinctive turning and other woodworking techniques. Tuition is $200 for the four-day class. Space reservations are encouraged.

Over the years I have perfected my banana bread recipe — one of my favorite solutions for using overripe bananas. I use all whole-grain flour or whole-grain flour mixed with white all-purpose flour, and rely as much as I can on the natural sweetness of the bananas to cut the total amount of granulated sugar called for in the recipe. I also like to roughly mash, or chop, my bananas so there are big chunks of fruit to bite into. I always throw in a handful of toasted chopped walnuts, and sometimes I’ll add a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg and some dark chocolate chips.

The Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a networking lunch at noon at the St. Regis Event Center, 4013 Springhill Road. Food will be catered by Henson Southern Traditions. Patrick Mead, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, will be the guest speaker. The fee for the event is $12 if registered by 10 a.m. today, and $15 if not registered in advance. For more information, contact Rae Ann, Dianna or Starla at (501) 847-4702, or email raeann@bryant-ar.com. Alzheimer’s Presentation

Arkadelphia city leaders are waiting for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department to respond to their request for a new Ouachita River bridge to be built in an area where the bridge would satisfy more than one need.

Doctors and administrators at Saline Memorial Hospital say some Saline County residents travel outside the community for medical treatment, and the medical center is conducting a survey to find out why those patients are not seeking care locally.

Socca is easy to love, as I learned several summers ago when a friend made a big batch as an appetizer for a backyard party. The crispy-edged and pancake-thin slices have that sweet and nutty flavor of chickpeas, but